A book review of Deplorable Conversations With Cats and Other Distractions by Yeoh Jo-Ann.
THE WEEK COCONUT, his late sister’s cat, starts speaking to him, Lucky Lee has to decide if he has gone mad, he is dreaming, or if the cat really is talking to him—which brings to mind CS Lewis’ oft-quoted passage from Mere Christianity about whether Jesus was a liar, a lunatic or the Lord.
Luckily, the stakes are much lower here. No one is asking you to believe in Lucky. You just need to be amenable to meandering through Singapore and Malaysia, flitting from desperate present to secretive past, through varying episodes of grief and depression as he tries to figure out his life without the one person who has defined it so far: his sister, Pearl.
