From Booklist
Picano, a popular writer of gay fiction--author of, most recently, the novel
Onyx (2001)--this time around submits a beautifully tender but not maudlin essay about his cat, Fred. Picano was living in New York City when he first encountered Fred, who was only a couple of weeks old. Fred's "education" is chronicled here in selective but fond and telling detail--if a cat can indeed be educated, of course. Fred and the author built a tremendously affectionate relationship based on Picano's eventual realization that, after he and Fred went through a bad spell over Fred's confusion and desire and pining for his one great lady-cat, "All I can do is love him." Lots of people have a cat story, but this one excels in seeing the whole adventure with both irony and amusement.
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Review
"Having always been allergic to cats, reading Felice Picano's new book about his beloved cat Fred was so vivid that it caused sneezing and made my eyes water." - Bob Smith, author of Openly Bob; "A lovely, not too nostalgic portrait of what is now a vanished bohemia." - Jim Marks, executive editor, Lambda Literary Foundation; "A beautifully written roman a clef centered on the felicitous and mysterious connection between Man and Cat." - Tony Mendoza, author of Ernie: A Photographer's Memoir"
