Love Saves the Day: A Novel

Love Saves the Day: A Novel

From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Homerâ€™s Odyssey comes a tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, primarily told through the eyes of the most observant member of any human family: the cat.

Humans best understand the truth of things if they come at it indirectly. Like how sometimes the best way to catch a mouse thatâ€™s right in front of you is to back up before you pounce.

So notes Prudence, the irresistible brown tabby at the center of Gwen Cooperâ€™s tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, which is mostly told through the eyes of this curious (and occasionally cranky) feline.

When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattanâ€™s Lower East Side, she knows sheâ€™s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesnâ€™t come home. From Prudenceâ€™s perch on the windowsill she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah, arrive with her new husband. Theyâ€™re carrying boxes. Before they even get to the front door, Prudence realizes that her life has changed forever.

Suddenly Prudence finds herself living in a strange apartment with humans she barely knows. It could take years to train them in the feline courtesies and customs (for example, a cat should always be fed before the humans, and at the same exact time every day) that Sarah understood so well. Prudence clings to the hope that Sarah will come back for her while Laura, a rising young corporate attorney, tries to push away memories of her mother and the tumultuous childhood spent in her motherâ€™s dusty downtown record store. But the secret joys, past hurts, and life-changing moments that make every mother-daughter relationship special will come to the surface. With Prudenceâ€™s help Laura will learn that the past, like a motherâ€™s love, never dies.

Poignant, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Love Saves the Day is a story of hope, healing, and how the love of an animal can make all of us better humans. Itâ€™s the story of a mother and daughter divided by the turmoil of bohemian New York, and the opinionated, irrepressible feline who will become the bridge between them. Itâ€™s a novel for anyone whoâ€™s ever lost a loved one, wondered what their cat was really thinking, or fallen asleep with a purring feline nestled in their arms. Prudence, a cat like no other, is sure to steal your heart.

Praise for Love Saves the Day
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â€œPrudence [is a] sassy but sensitive feline heroine.â€â€”Time

â€œUnforgettably moving . . . a hard one to put down.â€â€”Modern Cat
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â€œIf you are the Most Important Person to a cat, you will hold them much tighter by the bookâ€™s end. If you donâ€™t have a cat, Prudence will have surreptitiously lured you into the danger zone: Falling in love with a cat because they need family, too.â€â€”The Vancouver Sun
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â€œCooper brings readers a fictional tale that cat lovers will treasure. . . . This book will make most readers laugh and cry, and probably lead them to wonder more often what, exactly, their pet is thinking.â€â€”Fredericksburg Free Lanceâ€“Star
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â€œThe interspersed viewpoints . . . enrich Cooperâ€™s sensitively told novel that unravels a story (based on actual events) about a century-old tenement buildingâ€”and the inhabitants therein. That story ultimately serves as the basis to understanding the emotional subtexts of these authentic, well-drawn characters.â€â€”Shelf Awareness

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Gwen Cooper
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780345526960
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
NumberOfPages	337
PublicationDate	2013-01-15
Publisher	Bantam
ReleaseDate	2013-01-15
Studio	Bantam

Love Saves the Day: A Novel

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