This is a limited edition hardcover. Sarah Gerards The Butter House follows a woman who moves from a New York apartment to a Florida bungalow with her boyfriend. As she adapts to her new surroundings, the narrator navigates contradictory landscapes of love and possession, nature and built-environment, empathy and sympathy. She undergoes the arduous task of introducing two cats to the house and each other, while also becoming a surrogate caretaker for the neighborhoods feral cat colony. She grows a garden. She interrogates what it means to care for someone or something. Laced within these tender scenes, The Butter House chooses deliberate moments to scratch and bite with the ferocity of a territorial alley cat.
P>Review "A couple moves into the titular Butter House, and soon find themselves mired in the project of cat care. Sarah Gerard writes beautifully and precisely about the visceral, secretive feline landscape, and the possibilities that emerge when this world intersects with the human realm--challenging the couple at the center of The Butter House to renegotiate their relationship to care and what it means to feel at home." Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears"The Butter House is like a lithe and seductive feline, sinking its uncut claws into you. Sarah Gerards prose is quiet and contemplative and then chaotic in bursts, also not unlike a cat. The Butter House incisively considers the simultaneous care and cruelty of pet ownership, and Gerard is masterful in writing into all the nooks and crannies of a relationship. Its the tale cat people deserve." Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, author of Helen House"With precise and lush details, Gerard captures a sense of lifes fragility amid new possibilities. The authors fans are in for a treat." Publishers Weekly"[Sarah Gerards] prose is poetic, haunting, and pensive. As the girlfriend digs into the resistant earth and coaxes life from what is dying, she finds healing and a tranquil purpose . . . Meditative, wise, and worth revisiting, The Butter House is a novella about finding meaning in ones connections with animals and in the cultivation of a garden." Foreword Reviews"The Butter House is a chronicle of cats, its a turn back to nature and the land, its an answer to the question what it means to care for something outside of yourself." Write or Die Magazine"The Butter House is a gorgeous gem of a story, and for being such a small book, it certainly packs a large emotional punch." Seattle Book Review"The Butter House is a charming and surprisingly thought-provoking exploration of the myriad possibilities that domestic life can offer." Independent Book Review About the Author: Sarah Gerard (she/they) is the author of the novels True Love and Binary Star and the essay collection Sunshine State. They are the recipient of a 2021 Lambda Literary Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Sarahs short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, McSweeneys, The Believer, Vice, Electric Literature, and the anthologies We Cant Help It If Were From Florida, One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism, Tampa Bay Noir, Erase the Patriarchy, and I Know Whats Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom.Delivery
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