THE CAT AT THE WALL

In a small village on Israel's West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house. The house has been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers to use as a lookout, and it seems to be otherwise empty. Or is it? As she takes stock of the situation, the cat realizes that a small boy is also hiding in the house. Should she help him? This particular cat is not used to thinking of anyone but herself. She used to be a regular North American kid who only had to deal with normal middle-school problems -staying under the teachers' radar, bullying her sister and the uncool kids at school, and outsmarting her clueless parents. - But that was before she died and came to life again as a cat, in a place with a whole new set of rules for survival.

A remarkable, thought-provoking and original new novel by the author of The Breadwinner.