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THE English translation of Syon Ishida’s Japanese bestseller We’ll Prescribe You a Cat is set to hit the shelves on September 3.
Translated by E Madison Shimoda, the novel focuses on the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul, where struggling people are given cats as medication to help them through their troubled lives, resulting in a profound transformation.
The pages follow the perspectives of several patients of different ages and backgrounds, including a hardened bag designer seeking emotional balance, a young girl navigating elementary school complexities and a middle aged man struggling to stay relevant at work and home.
Born in 1975 in Kyoto, Syou began writing fiction while working at a telecommunications company. Her motivation to write the bestseller came from her personal adoration of cats. The novel’s sequel, We’ll Prescribe You a Cat, Again is set to be published worldwide next year.
