In the early 1950s, an
eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he
is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a
ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin.
As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean, the boys tumble from one adventure to
another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other
diversions as well: they are first exposed to the magical worlds of jazz,
women, and literature by their eccentric fellow travelers, and together they
spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will
haunt them forever. By turns poignant and electrifying, The Cat’s Table is
a spellbinding story about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of
childhood, and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular
sea voyage.
It seemed our group liked the plot of this story but not the
format it was written. We liked that the
story was written from the boy’s point of view but went back and forth in
time. Many in our group thought that the
characters were confusing, hard to follow, and the book was difficult to
read. Therefore most people in our group
did not like this book.
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