Sleeping with Cats

<p>Marge Piercy a writer who is highly praised as both a poet and a novelist turns her gaze inward as she shares her thoughts on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. She pays tribute to the one loving constant that has offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life have changed -- her beloved cats.</p><p>With searing honesty Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up in a religiously split working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships including two painful early marriages and reveals their effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past however <em>Sleeping With Cats</em> is also a celebration of the present and the future as Piercy shares her views on aging creativity and finding a lasting and improbable love with a man fourteen years younger than herself.</p><p>A chronicle of the turbulent and exciting journey of one artist's life <em>Sleeping With Cats</em> is a deeply intimate unforgettable story.</p>