Waltzing the Cat

Literary Short Stories

Author: Pam Houston

Relationships and extreme adventures collide with deadpan humor and female wisdom in Pam Houston’s transcendent follow-up to her bestselling Cowboys Are My Weakness. Through eleven interlinked stories, we follow roving photographer Lucy O’Rourke as she survives a home life where her parents engage in rather peculiar feeding rites for the family cat in a “title story that d….Read More

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