About the Author

Makoto Shinkai is the hugely popular and multi-award-winning anime filmmaker of Your Name and Weathering with You.

Naruki Nagakawa is a Japanese game and anime screenwriter, and novelist. She and Her Cat is inspired by Makoto Shinkai's praised anime and written by Nagakawa, and will be published around the world.

Ginny Tapley Takemori is the award-winning translator of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and other highly acclaimed Japanese fiction. She lives in rural Japan.

Reviews

"Read on their own or taken as a whole, these heartfelt, insightful stories offer a thematic continuum about the quiet burdens people bear in the modern, often isolated world and how human-animal interactions enrich and embolden lives." --Shelf Awareness

"Multiple shes and cats populate this gratifying, slim novel, which arrives with a decades-long history that undoubtedly underscores its timeless appeal....The greatest humanity, of course, is found in the complex, caring, and insightful four-footed characters." -Booklist

"[A] whimsical and moving linked collection...the author's earnest depictions of the friendships between people and felines produces genuine wonder...sure to satisfy readers looking for a quick pick-me-up." -Publishers Weekly