Cats and coffee mix in a quixotic but aimless novel
The Straits Times|April 21, 2024
DEPLORABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH CATS AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS
- Yeoh Jo-Ann
Cats and coffee mix in a quixotic but aimless novel

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book with "cat" in the title must be catnip for the bestseller charts.

Witness the phenomenon of The Travelling Cat Chronicles (2012) by Hiro Arikawa, or other Straits Times bestsellers such as The Cat Who Saved Books (2017) by Sosuke Natsukawa and the Singapore-set The Community Cat Chronicles (2020) by Lachlan Madsen and Eleanor Nilsson.

The latest feline fiction to claw its way to the top of the charts is Deplorable Conversations With Cats And Other Distractions, the second novel of Malaysia-born, Singapore-based Yeoh Jo-Ann.

It possesses a bevy of tropes to gladden the heart of any millennial hipster. Artisanal coffee? Check.

Heritage shophouse in a gentrineighbourhood? Check.

fying Cats? Check, check and check.

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