Sleeping With Cats

In this moving and generous memoir, Marge Piercy shares her perspective on life and explores her development as a woman and writer. Throughout, she revisits the people, circumstances, and actions that shaped her experiences and inspired her work. And she pays tribute to the one loving constant that offered her comfort and meaning even as the faces and events in her life changed: her beloved pet cats.

With searing honesty Piercy tells of her strained childhood growing up poor in a religiously split working-class family in Detroit. She examines her myriad friendships and relationships, including two painful early marriages, and reveals the effects on her creativity and career. More than a reminiscence of things past, Sleeping with Cats is a celebration of the present and the future, as Piercy shares her thoughts on aging, creativity, and love.