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Cat tales for Mariette an unexpected friendship on the Camdeboo Plains of South Africa

Set in the dusty Karoo desert town of Aberdeen, South Africa, "Cat Tales for Mariette" tells of the unexpected friendship that forms between Michael Brown and a dying woman, Mariette Van Wyk. The two bond over Michael's sharing cat stories from his many years of life shared with cats. Mariette's unf...

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Main Author: Brown, Michael, 1962- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver, Canada : Namaste Publishing, [2016]
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Friendship > Fiction.
Terminally ill > Fiction.
Cats > Fiction.
Aberdeen (South Africa) > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:Set in the dusty Karoo desert town of Aberdeen, South Africa, "Cat Tales for Mariette" tells of the unexpected friendship that forms between Michael Brown and a dying woman, Mariette Van Wyk. The two bond over Michael's sharing cat stories from his many years of life shared with cats. Mariette's unfulfilled longing to experience the presence of cats in her life comes to fruition through cat tales over tea and cookies in the hospital. As Mariette takes the final steps of her journey, these stories magically bring insight, healing, and resolution to her past and also to Michael's.
Physical Description:viii, 184 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781897238783
1897238789
Author Notes:Michael Brown is the successful author of two Namaste Publishing books, The Presence Process and Alchemy of the Heart . Both books are a culmination of his years exploring present moment awareness. He developed the internationally known procedure, The Presence Process, for which his first book was named. After traveling extensively in North America to promote this process, Michael returned to South Africa to pursue other interests, including fiction writing. Tales for Mariette is Michael's first fiction book. He lives in Aberdeen, South Africa.

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