Another Insane Devotion

From an award-winning author and "a genuine American Dosto­evsky" (The Washington Post): an exploration of the mysteries of love and marriage, pleasure and obligation-through the lens of cat ownership.

In the middle of my life, or slightly past it, I entered an interval of darkness. My marriage was floundering. I was deep in debt. Then I learned that my cat Biscuit had gone missing.

In telling the story of this dual crisis and the search that ensued from it, award-winning author Peter Trachtenberg explores the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal. The result, a work comprised of small moments with large implications, is a double love story with the suspense of a mystery novel.

PETER TRACHTENBERG is the author of 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Bomb, and Harper's. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Fellowship and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Eileen Myles, author of Cool for You and Inferno
"This is Peter's best book and if you don't know what that means just imagine your sweetest, most perverse storytelling friend asks to meet because he has a confession to make. When you arrive he informs you that he loves his cat more than life itself, or exactly that much and then he opens his shirt and shows you the cat tattoo and then he begins to tell you of his love and in a puff hours vanish and it's absolutely riveting."

Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
"I am not a cat person-I approach each one on a cat-by-cat basis-yet Peter Trachtenberg is such a wonderful writer, and this book is so damn good, that I found myself carried along by its lucidity, its generosity, its deep wisdom. In the end, of course, Another Insane Devotion is about much more than cats."