Fra omslaget: "In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his master's consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn't eat the parrot).

Fra omslaget: "Gothic fairy tales with beautifully rendered characters and sharp dialogue grace these vignettes of romance, humor, horror and sorrow." "...tales of social treachery, urequited love, bad goth poetry and monsters under the bed"