Hate That Cat: A Novel

Found this by surprise while working in an elementary school. I had read Love That Dog when I was a kid and recall feeling lukewarm about it, but it was surprisingly enjoyable. Not sure if it was because this topic was not the mourning of a pet but of opening up oneself to a new pet or if now reading it as an adult who works with kids Jack seemed so authentic. I also was very interested in the mentioning of Jack's mother's deafness and his uncle who is snooty about poetry.

I am often picky about poetry so I appreciated that this was a story told through poems rather than separate poems in a book.