Cat Mother – A Picture Book with a Magical Story

CAT MOTHER was executed during the COVID pandemic, and was written for adults. It also occurs in film and theatrical script forms.
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Cat Mother is available for purchase at Athenaeum Boekhandel, Amazon, and other fine bookstores.
ORDER USING THE ISBN NUMBER: 9798218076917

SYNOPSIS:
MUCH of life is unseen, unsaid…
Mourning her husband’s death from COVID 19; Geni, childless, asthmatic, a 60+ artist, sinks deeper into depression upon the demise of her beloved pet cat. While drawing she experiences the uncanny materialization of a hybrid feline. This is the Amandapuss who appears periodically to cull Geni’s consciousness.
     Attempting to re-group by visiting Anasazi ruins, she is thwarted by dangerous conditions, and a desert storm sweeps away her backpack with her dependable inhaler inside, Geni gives chase and recovers it. She contemplates suicide more deeply, as she tries to return to camp, Walking through a slot canyon, confrontations ensue as she encounters greedy ranchers fighting over land, an emotionally abused boy, and others who pin down her contempt with humanity. Meeting a mermaid, her parental ghosts, and talking animals, Geni evolves.
     Shape-shifting to escape rising flash flood waters to save her life and that of a befriended porcupine, she swims the UNIFIED FIELD of ancestral energy and love, and re-connects to life. Geni realizes the cat spirit of the puma has mothered her into completion.

Illustrations for CAT MOTHER were on view at Tompkins Square Library from October 17, 2022 to November 30, 2022. A lecture-presentation took place on Saturday, October 29th 2022.