Invisible Kitties, Yu Yoyo
Invisible Kitties, Yu Yoyo
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Invisible Kitties
A Feline Study of Fluid Mechanics or The Spurious Incidents of the Cats in the Night-Time

Author: Yu Yoyo

Narrator: Erin Lin

Unabridged: 3 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperVia

Published: 10/01/2024


Synopsis

In this whimsical and inventive debut—perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and Calvino’s Invisible Cities—a young couple’s daily life is disrupted by their newly adopted cat, who soon initiates them into the wondrous world of felines.Equal parts magical and humorous, Invisible Kitties tells the story of a young couple that one day accidentally comes into possession of a delightful, playful kitten. Bright eyed and bushy tailed, this new companion, aptly named Cat, upturns the routine of the narrator and her husband in their cramped apartment, and soon they find their existence forever altered as they gradually gain insight into the fantastical world of cats.Every cat contains multitudes... Charting the couple’s ever-evolving relationship with cats –some they live with, others who exist solely in their imagination– Invisible Kitties introduces us to a coterie of extraordinary, physics-defying, death-defying cats. They drop from the sky, they grow from the soil, they transmute. They fly, flow, and evaporate. The young couple’s everyday life, often eclipsed by the drama of cats, offers a gentle glimpse of how joy can suddenly sneak into our lives.Composed of sixty chapters written in Yu Yoyo’s elegant and witty style— Invisible Kitties is a celebration of ordinary life and the felines we love, deftly playing with the invisible boundaries between reality and imagination.Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang 

About Yu Yoyo

Born in 1990, Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo had already begun to earn critical attention before she turned sixteen, publishing dozens of poems in Poetry, Poetry Monthly, and other prestigious publications in China. She studied business management and accounting in university, but she never gave up on her long-standing passion for poetry and finally embraced her life’s calling upon graduation. She is now seen as a representative voice among the post-’90s generation, and is especially known for her mature voice and subtle treatment of modern femininity. Her poems have been translated into English, Korean, Russian, French, Japanese, and Swedish. Yoyo has published the following collections in China: Seven Years (2012), Me as Bait (2016), Wind Can’t (2019), and Against Body (2019). Her first English collection, My Tenantless Body, was published by the Poetry Translation Centre in 2019. Invisible Kitties is her first novel. She currently lives in Chengdu. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on October 20, 2024

DNF @50% Your enjoyment of this book will depend on your expectations, and your tolerance for obsessive anthropomorphic whimsical, and often fantastical, rumination on what it is to be Cat. The blurb says:“When a young couple accidentally comes into possession of a playful kitten, their daily routi......more

Goodreads review by Kate on September 27, 2024

3.5 If you've ever owned a cat you will recognise lots of cat behaviours and cat/human interactions in this book. It really is exactly what it says in the title. It is simply the story of a couple who get a cat and then a kitten. There are some extremely strange parts - the hairball that turns into a......more

Goodreads review by Stewart on November 20, 2024

Full disclosure: I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. The book is a cat lover's delight! It's not a novel as the term is commonly understood. It's more a series of musings on cats that are not literally true so much as they are poetically true. Yoyo is an actual poet, so this tracks. Fo......more

Goodreads review by Bella Azam on February 05, 2025

Invisible Kitties's charms lies on the fantastical elements of the storytelling and narrative by the author herself, Yu Yoyo on her lives as a cat owner. Rather than a novel, this read more like essays or snapshots of her life with her cats and how she resonates both internally, emotionally and phys......more

Goodreads review by Liina on October 21, 2024

"When we look up at the night sky, we remember that Earth is just another celestial body among many others, including the Cat-Ball Planets. They reflect sunlight, making use of the sun's excess energy. Cat loved basking in the sun because his planets needed to absorb sufficient heat and light to bla......more