She and Her Cat William McIlvanney How do you comfort a

How do you comfort a man who has just lost his best friend

the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna

Outside of the bandmembers themselves

Their motives are unclear

lovers and companions—Mendoza explores her characters’ passions in a way that simmers on the page

She and Her Cat William McIlvanney How do you comfort aLying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat , a collection of four interrelated, stream of conscious short