#kraching

Kraching is a region where cats are holy and protective their secrets. There are many woodworkers, a cult of assassins that venerates cat claws and a treacherous plot or two. Cats always seem to be plotting something, even if most wind up being too lazy to enact their schemes.

I previously had some lines here that were watered down musings from the book, but they honestly need more space than I could fit here, so you’ll have to buy the book when it comes out. Instead, let me just stress that in a world where Tolkien and Joseph Campbell dominate the language of fantasy, A Thousand Thousand Islands stands as a sharp (and beautiful) rebuttal of the monomyth.