Herding Cats

How it reads

Herding Cats is contemporary fiction (autobiographical humor comics, specifically), and its dominant mood is funny. The humour is the point, not garnish. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are identity, coming of age and friendship. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 110 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.