The Butter House

Sarah Gerard's The Butter House follows a woman who moves from a New York apartment to a Florida bungalow with her boyfriend. As she adapts to her new surroundings, the narrator navigates contradictory landscapes of love and possession, nature and built-environment, empathy and sympathy. She undergoes the arduous task of introducing two cats to the house and each other, while also becoming a surrogate caretaker for the neighborhood's feral cat colony. She grows a garden. She interrogates what it means to care for someone or something. Laced within these tender scenes, The Butter House chooses deliberate moments to scratch and bite with the ferocity of a territorial alley cat.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Conium Press
Published: 04/18/2023
ISBN: 9781942387190
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.11lbs
Size: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.17d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/20/2023