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Mornings Without Mii

Mornings Without Mii, Mayumi Inaba’s classic memoir now translated into English for the first time, tenderly describes the author’s life with her fluffy little helpmeet, a cat named Mii.

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Review of ‘Mornings Without Mii’

It was summer 1977 when Mayumi Inaba first met Mii, “a teeny tiny baby kitten” stuck in a high fence on the banks of Tokyo’s Tamagawa River. Inaba stretched up to rescue her, brought her home and, as she reveals in her bracing and beautiful memoir, Mornings Without Mii, set in motion a 20-year relationship…

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