Critical Praise

"An utterly pleasurable discovery. . .the sort one enjoys in the fiction of Carol Shields, Pam Houston, Melissa Bank."

——The Washington Post Book World

"Acute perceptions and an intelligent voice are evident throughout De Gramont's collection. You need not be a cat-lover to appreciate it."

——Newsday

"The author weaves cats into each story so deftly that they function as both poetic figures and complex characters."

——Mademoiselle

"These stories are superbly crafted, dark and funny, at times as enigmatic as the two beasts in the title. Of Cats and Men is a sensuous and wickedly honest book about women and men and the sly, aloof, casually beautiful animals who pad through their lives."

——Brad Watson, author of Last Days of the Dog-Men