Fierce Attachments

“It’s charming, insightful, and—for cat lovers—pretty darn irresistible, but what exactly is it? Part autobiography, part love story, part In Memoriam to two cats, plus a bunch of stuff about cats and their extraordinary sensory perception powers and their reasons for doing what they do that I (cat person over many years) did not know. It should be a Point of Sale book in the stores, and you are not allowed to call that a POS for reasons that the younger generation will explain. What leads me to believe that this will be a hot ticket in the gift-giving department?” —Margaret Atwood

“With her poet’s heart and biographer’s curiosity Sullivan gives us a portrait of beloved cats that is as magical as it is illuminating.” —Barbara Gowdy, author of The White Bone

“Tender and moving—an eloquent memoir, as soulful and intelligent as the cats she writes about, and beautifully illustrated by Sullivan’s sister, Colleen, whose paintings literally scratch those cats back to life.” —Plum Johnson, author of They Left Us Everything

“Whimsical, at times profound, a reflection of what it is to be a cat in order to be reminded what it is to be human.” —Roxana Spicer, bestselling author of The Traitor’s Daughter

“Beautifully written, adventurous excursions into the world of her feline companions, Ensueño and Negrito. Colleen Sullivan’s playful illustrations are also welcome intrusions into the text—as if a black cat had jumped up and lounged on the pages of the author’s manuscript.” —Marni Jackson, author of Don’t I Know You?

Rosemary Sullivan is the celebrated author of seventeen books including biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue, and short fiction. She is best known for her biography Stalin’s Daughter, which was published in 23 countries and won the RBC Taylor Prize, the B. C. National Non-Fiction Prize, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award, and was a finalist for the PEN / Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Her book Villa Air-Bel was awarded the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and has lectured in Canada, the US, Europe, India, and Latin America. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012. She lives in East York, Ontario.

Colleen Sullivan is a design and fine arts graduate of Concordia University in Montreal. She has worked extensively in the UK, the US, and Canada. In tandem with a career in graphic design, Sullivan is an accomplished printmaker, painter, and illustrator of several children’s books, including Molito by Rosemary Sullivan. Her work focuses on the bold use of dramatic gestures and expressive imagery, whether that be figurative, abstract, or imaginary. An Award of Excellence recipient from the California State Fair, she is represented in public and private collections in the US and Canada and has shown her work internationally in North America, Europe, and Asia. Her art studio is currently located outside of Victoria, British Columbia.

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