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I thoroughly enjoyed We Will Prescribe You A Cat. The book concerns a mysterious clinic in Kyoto where troubled people are given a cat for a limited time to help resolve their issues (with a few twists and turns). Highly recommended for cat lovers!

We'll Prescribe You A Cat is a unique collection of stories about disparate and often soul-weary characters needing help and who wind up at the Kokoro Clinic For The Soul. The clinic doctor's remedy for each visitor is a prescription for a clinic-selected cat for a specific number of days. Lives are altered not just for the patient, but for others who share time with the little healer - the cat. Hearts are re-opened, possibilities appear, and the future may seem clearer and brighter. The collage of touching vignettes often interweaves the characters into each other's stories as well as gradually provides answers to the overall mystery about this clinic, the young doctor, the reticent nurse, the prescribed beguiling cats, and even the strange building.

I will long remember these cats, their lives, and the love and devotion between them and their new human companions, but also for their often-painful backstories. I easily could have been someone at the clinic's door. After my husband died, I was urged to take in a broken-down, old, horribly-ill, burr-covered cat found in a field. I did just that. I had been given my clinic prescription that day. Since then, my world has been filled with love, a lot of fur, and beautiful feline companionship all these years. This book conveys and captures all of it. Once it is published, I will be giving it, with its delightful cover, as gifts not only to cat lovers, but to others with this inscription: "Don't worry. Cats can solve most problems."

I am grateful to Berkley Publishing Group, NetGalley, and BookBrowse for the early access to this book. This opinion is all my own.

We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida
We'll Prescribe You a Cat is a heartwarming, humorous acknowledgement of the healing powers of the human-animal connection. Syou Ishida's charming collection of Japanese short stories linked by cat personalities and antics has been translated to English by E. Madison Shimoda. The deep emotional and personal issues of the patients who find the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul are artfully translated so English readers experience similar perplexing inner turmoil when the smiling doctor says, "We'll prescribe you a cat," writes the prescription for a designated number of days and dismisses the astonished client. Ishida deftly probes loneliness, family dynamics, business relationships, and grief by examining the feelings of healing and hope found through pet connections. We'll Prescribe You a Cat, a gratifying, witty encouragement to test the healing powers of a cat!
Dorothy Schwab
Grateful Reader DFW

We'll Prescribe You A Cat is a fun read with many twists and turns. If you are a cat lover or not it will be an interesting read. It's uniquely written and who knew cats could be prescribed as medicine. It is a fictional tale to be enjoyed with many thoughts to ponder filled with unimaginable surprises.. A perfect rainy day and cup of tea kind of book, cozied up with your favorite feline. Who knows, maybe you will fall in love with the cat prescribed for you. I plan to read it again too, that is how much I liked the book. I will be watching for more books by this author. Happy Reading!!

This is the kind of books that leaves a mark. The one you keep thinking about after you finish it, because it reads like a modern fairy tale, both tragic and spirited, and you can't help but wonder if you peeled all the layers of the onion or if there is more for you to explore. At least that is how I feel after reading it. Of course I may be biased because I am a big cat lover, and reading about all their quirks, which I have myself experienced, makes me smile. Thanks Bookbrowse and Netgalley for the advance copy!

We'll Prescribe You A Cat is one of the most unique books I have ever read. I do love cats as do many readers. I think this charming book will resonate with many as it dives into the way that cats can relate to people and improve their world. The specialness of the clinic that prescribes the cats is slowly revealed as the book progresses through several different breeds of cats being matched with different owners. I liked the magical aspect of the book and enjoyed the characters. The translation from Japanese was smooth and gave an interesting look into the Japanese culture. I will be recommending this book to my book club and all my reading friends.Thanks BookBrowse and netgalley for letting me preview this fun book!

Trouble at work? Difficult child? Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul might have just what you need: a cat to take home for two weeks.

"We'll Prescribe You a Cat" is a charming set of vignettes about people who end up at a difficult-to-find clinic and find themselves carrying home a four-legged prescription. Imagine their surprise! When difficulties begin to resolve, the "patients" are even more incredulous.

The clinic itself is surrounded by mystery. Things are not necessarily as they seem.

This is a sweet story that tugs at the heartstrings. I hope Ishida will write a sequel.

Readers of Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat first witness a young man trapped in Japan's very real and sometimes brutal office work culture. Soon, when Shuta Kagawa seeks psychological support to overcome his misery, he enters what will seem to Western readers to be a scene from The Twilight Zone. For Shuta and the book's successive characters who seek aid from "The Clinic for the Soul," the clinic is sometimes there, down a narrow alley in a central city neighborhood, and sometimes not. Uniting and intertwining five individual stories are the charming cats who transform their humans' lives. After finishing the book, many Western readers can resolve many seeming ambiguities through an Internet search of Japan's cat culture. Zack Davisson's September 2020 Atlantic article, "Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with Cats" provided me with many an "ah-ha" moment. The book offers glimpses of ordinary life in modern Japan, but beyond that, the magical elements, if researched a bit, open new doors to Japan's long history of cat-related folklore.