From the start it’s clear Heather knows my hometown
To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me is a memoir written by former journalist Heather Green about a time in her life when she was a single – albeit with a boyfriend – career woman living and working in New York City who was ostensibly “rescued” by kittens. How could I resist? From the start it’s clear Heather knows my hometown (NYC) and has the attitude to prove it. She goes to work despite suffering a concussion bashing her head into a subway pole and views New Jersey – where her boyfriend Matt resides – much like Iowa in proximity and her lack of desire to visit (a situation for which Manhattanite’s have coined the phrase “geographically undesirable”). While having grown up with an array of animals, the world of feral cats and cat rescue were knew to her. Then one day, she and Matt (her now husband) saw three tiny kittens with their mom in a neighbor’s backyard in New Jersey. Suddenly Heather...