The Good Luck Cat is a story to show all of us that we can willingly create a loving atmosphere of mutual support by putting others’ needs ahead of our own. This story has all the drama and pathos you might expect in a novel, but this is story about real life. The story and the prose are addictive. Once you begin the book, you will probably want to continue until you finish because it is more than a story for cat lovers.
Roanoke Times
This memoir of love, loss, and a cat touches the reader’s heart. . . .[T]his one is a special and beautiful story about making a family complete, about easing the pain of losing a loved one. It’s about love and devotion and soul, and the good luck Ting both brings and receives. . . .The Good Luck Cat has a strong narrative that holds readers all the way to its satisfying end. But then “Writing is easier with a cat beside you,” the author writes, readily acknowledging the contribution of the nineteen-year-old Ting-pei Warren.
The Internet Review Of Books
Lissa Warren. . . .is an accomplished editor and publicity director. She’s also a terrific writer. Her memoir, The Good Luck Cat: How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat, is beautiful. It’s not just the story of Ting, her family’s Korat cat, who came into their home when her retired father needed a pet to keep him company. It’s also a grown daughter’s love letter to her parents. It’s a story of illness, fear and grief. And eventually, peace, in part from life with Ting: 'The clocks in our house were superfluous; we marked our time by the cat.' I don’t want to give too much away, because part of the pleasure of this book is Warren’s unfolding of the various facets of her story. This isn’t just another book about a special pet – it’s an incredible story of care and determination, love and devotion, and family.
Concord Monitor
Sink your claws in this book if you're a fan of felines. Get (cat) food for thought if you're interested in the relationship between animals and healing. Or start The Good Luck Cat if you want a smart read, and good luck accomplishing anything else.
Marco Eagle
Sink your claws in this book if you're a fan of felines. Get (cat) food for thought if you're interested in the relationship between animals and healing. Or start The Good Luck Cat if you want a smart read, and good luck accomplishing anything else.
Sun News
"A tale about a cat that's so touching, it will even make dog lovers purr."
Bruce Goldstein, author of Puppy Chow is Better than Prozac A beautifully-crafted memoir that reads like a novel, The Good Luck Cat is a reminder of the way a pet can change a life, and the way a life can change in an instant."-Ann Garvin, author of The Dog Year "Out of the most harrowing loss, Lissa Warren has written a testament to the enduring power of love, particularly love between people and their cats. The Good Luck Cat is a moving and often gripping story of intertwining feline and human affections and destinies, and one that wonderfully captures the mercurial charisma of the title character."-Peter Trachtenberg, author of Another Insane Devotion "In language that is as lean and lyrical as her poetry, Warren invites us to accompany her family on their adventure through love and illness, loss and more illness, and the little routines that keep the family moving forward through those emotional changes that mark everyone's life...Lissa Warren opens the family's personal lives to public scrutiny, but the personal nature of this memoir is overridden by its universality. Like the medieval morality play 'Everyman,' The Good Luck Cat is a story to show all of us that we can willingly create a loving atmosphere of mutual support by putting others' needs ahead of our own. This story has all the drama and pathos you might expect in a novel, but this is story about real life. The story and the prose are addictive. Once you begin the book, you will probably want to continue until you finish because it is more than a story for cat lovers."-Roanoke Times "The Good Luck Cat is an ode to how four lives-three human, one feline-intertwine in acts of devotion large and small, and how those connections foster healing in the worst of times...The Good Luck Cat goes to the heart of what family means."-Energy Times "Depending on who you listen to, the Internet is alternately ruled by cats or made of them. Either way, it is well established that denizens of the Internet like a good cat tale. And, honestly, they don't get much better than what can be found in Lissa Warren's The Good Luck Cat...Gorgeously written and generously shared...A beautiful tribute not only to a beloved and much missed father, but also to feline companions everywhere who give far beyond the obvious to the people who adore them."-January Magazine "There's death and disease in Lissa Warren's new memoir...but there's also a close-knit family that turns darkness into light."-Boston Globe "[A] moving story."-Huffington Post "The Good Luck Cat is an ode to how four lives-three human, one feline-intertwine in acts of devotion large and small, and how those connections foster healing in the worst of times...The Good Luck Cat goes to the heart of what family means."-Energy Times