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REVIEWS: The Cat's Table
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NY Times
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GoodReads
Book Companion
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo
boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at
the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with
a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys,
Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the
Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean,
the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over
the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as
well: one man talks with them about jazz and women, another
opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator’s
elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing
him to see himself “with a distant eye” for the first time, and
to feel the first stirring of desire. Another Cat’s Table
denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more than what
she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled
prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will
haunt them forever.
Characters: 45. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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