We’ll Prescribe You a Cat

In the backstreets of Kyoto, a clinic that is hard to find issues an unusual prescription to every patient who reaches it: a cat, for a fixed period, with instructions. Syou Ishida writes a set of linked stories around that premise, following patients from very different walks of life whose circumstances shift over the weeks they spend with an animal chosen for them. The tone stays light and the resolutions are small, which suits a book concerned with ordinary difficulty rather than crisis. What the stories share: • Linked short stories set around one hidden Kyoto clinic • Gentle magical realism grounded in everyday problems • Cats written as characters rather than as devices • An English translation of a Japanese bestseller For readers of comforting Japanese fiction, cat lovers and anyone after a calm evening's reading, available at Boipoka.