How to Live Together

A profound short novel about gender identity, our relationship with cats, and the complexities of human bonds.

A precariously employed academic moves into a house in Oxford to cat-sit, seeking solitude away from the complications of living with other people. They expect the cats to be nothing but a minor inconvenience, the price of a house to themselves as they write and read. But the cats’ insistent presence disturbs the polarities that structure their thinking: human and non-human, …