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Review | Book review: why we love cats -The Lion in the Living Room explains

This enchanting journey helps to explain why we love cats despite their indifference to us

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Cats have few innate duties and don’t seem to care whether they please us.
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The Lion in the Living Room’s cover.
The Lion in the Living Room’s cover.

The Lion in the Living Room

by Abigail Tucker

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Simon & Schuster

3.5 stars

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I read much of Abigail Tucker’s The Lion in the Living Room, appropriately, with a cat on my lap. And though I sat quietly, she did not: sometimes perching on the arm of my chair, staring vaguely but fixedly into space while her tail blocked the pages; sometimes jumping out of my lap and noisily racing around the room for no apparent reason.

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