Homer's Odyssey

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by Gwen Cooper


  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  GWEN COOPER is the author of the novel Diary of a South Beach Party Girl. A Miami native, she spent five years working in nonprofit administration, marketing, and fundraising. She coordinated volunteer activities on behalf of organizations including Pet Rescue, the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, the Miami Rescue Mission, and His House Children’s Home, and she initiated Reading Pen Pals, an elementary-school-based literacy program in Miami’s Little Haiti. Gwen currently lives in Manhattan with her husband, Laurence. She also lives with her three perfect cats—Scarlett, Vashti, and Homer—who aren’t impressed with any of it.

  www.gwencooper.com

  Homer’s Odyssey is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed.

  Copyright © 2009 by Gwen Cooper

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Cooper, Gwen. Homer’s odyssey: a fearless feline tale, or how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat / Gwen Cooper.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-440-33874-1

  1. Blind cats—Biography. 2. Human-animal relationships. I. Title.

  SF986.B56C66 2009

  636.8092′2

  2009017602

  www.bantamdell.com

  v3.0

  Table of Contents

  FOREWORDBY PATRICIA KHULY, VMD

  PROLOGUEThe Cat Who Lived

  Socket to Me

  What Do You See in an Eyeless Cat?

  The First Day of the Rest of His Life

  The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee

  The New Kid

  Don’t Be Happy. Worry.

  Gwen Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

  The Ballad ofEl Mocho

  “Dogs and Cats, Living Together …”

  Running on Faith

  A One-Bedroom of One’s Own

  Pet Sounds

  Lord of the Flies

  Mucho Gato

  My Homer/My Self

  Cats and the Single Girl

  “The Pussy Galore Tour”

  Cool For Cats

  A Hole in the Sky

  September 12, 2001

  None So Blind

  A Canticle for Vashowitz

  Intimations of Immortality

  Reader, I Married Him

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

 

 


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