"The Travelling Cat Chronicles" by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel, Berkley. 288 pp. $20 I love animals, and I love books, but I tend to avoid novels about animals because I don't enjoy crying. The world has given us enough to sob about lately. No one needs to relive "Old Yeller" to induce catharsis.Perhaps I'm still scarred by "Where the Red Fern Grows," which made me bawl so unremittingly my mother threatened to take me to a doctor. [...]
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