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Original Title:	Waltzing the Cat
ISBN:	1860497896 (ISBN13: 9781860497896)

Waltzing the Cat

Pam Houston

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 1529 Users | 145 Reviews

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Title	:	Waltzing the Cat
Author	:	Pam Houston
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	April 6th 2000 by Little Brown and Company (first published October 17th 1998)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Book Club

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Now, in eleven linked fictions featuring a peripatetic photographer named Lucy O'Rourke, author Pam Houston once again serves up her charismatic blend of relationships and adventure. This is the story of one woman's struggle for balance in a world that keeps pitching and rolling under her feet. Dislocated geographically and spiritually, Lucy is prone to the wrong decisions at all the critical times; what's more, natural disasters just seem to find her: an accident on a rafting trip in Cataract Canyon, a grand cayman attack in the Amazon, a hurricane in the Gulf Stream--not to mention a few natural disasters in the form of men. A surprise encounter with Carlos Castenada convinces her that she isn't living the right life, and his cryptic message sends her back to her beloved Rocky Mountains. There, on a ranch, she takes comfort in animals, the jagged landscape of Colorado, and the sage advice of female friends; she even gives a man a try. Most importantly, for the first time she reconnects with parts of herself she didn't remember losing.

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This is written as several short stories, but all about the same woman and all in a loosely chronological trajectory. I really like that take on short stories--the effect is of having read a novel, but episodically, tangentially. Awesome.I also like that the main character is a smart, fearless, outdoorsy woman, even if she doesn't seem that way at the beginning. Honestly, I may have enjoyed the book so much because of how it made me feel about my own life and connections to nature, not for any

Pam Houston's story collection Cowboys Are My Weakness was one of my favorite books of the 1990s, and I remember being really excited to get Waltzing the Cat when the paperback came out in 1999. On a day trip to NYC with my cousins, we passed by a bookstore neither of them had any interest in going into (sigh), so I ducked in quickly, seized the book from the new releases table, bought it and emerged victorious. Then, of course, I let the book sit on my shelf for years and years, only one victim

"For David, See you, one day on a wild river. Take care, Pam Houston."Pam and I go way back. My autographed "Cowboys Are My Weakness" was all I read one summer in the mid 90s. We met walking in the Brecon Beacons. True story. Cool, huh?So I saw "Waltzing the Cat" at my local used bookshop and I probably made that weird noise I make in used bookshops when I spot something I really want. Pam's as great as ever. Gentle and elegiac about the brutal and lively. Nostalgic for the now, but not syrupy.

40: Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston...at the recommendation of my dear cousin-by-marriage and up-and-coming author, Melissa Koss, who said that this book "broke my heart a second time," by which I believed that that meant I should read it. Wow. I have already ordered three more Pam Houston books with the expectation that they are just as good or better than this one, which is amazing. Lucy's story--how to find herself despite being unfairly raised for that kind of strength--is such an amazing

Years and years since I read Cowboys Are My Weakness. Glad I came back around to Pam Houston's stories. They make me feel like I'm breathing crisp Colorado air except when I feel like I'm choking on a big mouth full of river water. Guess there's something to be said for both.

This collection of 11 short stories follows a single main character, photographer and adventure seeker Lucy, as she tries to figure out who she is and what she wants in life. For most of the book, that seems to hinge on finding a man, and there are a lot of failed romances in these pages. Some of these stories I really enjoyed, and would have given four or five stars: "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had," "Waltzing the Cat," and "Then You Get Up and Have Breakfast" were all fantastic, and will