A story of women and cats — told partly from the cats’ perspectives

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Anime director Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa’s She and Her Cattells four short interrelated stories of women and the cats, switching between human and feline perspectives. Set in Tokyo, the bestselling novel follows Miyu, a college administrator who finds it difficult to express herself and is feeling lonely in a disappointing casual relationship until she stumbles upon Chobi, an abandoned cat. It also introduces readers to Reina, an art student at the college Miyu works at, who makes the error of assuming that her natural talent are all she needs to thrive and her cat Mimi a small fragile stray. Mimi’s kitten helps a woman named Aoi cope with the loss of a friend. Finally, Kuro, the neighborhood's alpha stray cat, brings comfort to Shino.