The Butter House

<p><strong>This is a limited edition hardcover.</strong> Sarah Gerard's <em>The Butter House</em> follows a woman who moves from a New York apartment to a Florida bungalow with her boyfriend. As she adapts to her new surroundings the narrator navigates contradictory landscapes of love and possession nature and built-environment empathy and sympathy. She undergoes the arduous task of introducing two cats to the house and each other while also becoming a surrogate caretaker for the neighborhood's feral cat colony. She grows a garden. She interrogates what it means to care for someone or something. Laced within these tender scenes <em>The Butter House</em> chooses deliberate moments to scratch and bite with the ferocity of a territorial alley cat.</p>