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First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers: What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? It was originally hosted by Wandering Words (I tried to look for the original link but couldn’t find any that opened for me).
Rules:
> Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
> Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
> Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
It was a wet day in early spring. Dense, fog-like rain fell on me as I lay at the side of the road, my cheek plastered against the bottom of a cardboard box. Pedestrians gave me sideways glances as they rushed past. Eventually, I could no longer lift my head and was left gazing up at the leaden sky though one eye.
She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa
Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever.
So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication.
With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world—often in ways we could never have expected.
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