Some stories teach.
Some entertain.
This one remembers.
After surviving a childhood fever, a girl begins hearing cats speak. They teach her what humans forget—how to fall without shame, love without grasping, and stay when everything else leaves. As she grows, listening comes at a cost. Loss follows. The cats do not explain. They do not rescue.
They stay.
Years later, an adult with a quiet life and a watchful cat discovers the girl’s journal. What begins as curiosity becomes recognition. The words feel familiar. The cats feel known. The remembering feels dangerous.
The Memory of the Tail is a lyrical novel about grief, presence, and the strange wisdom that arrives when we stop trying to understand and start learning how to see. Funny in the way cats are funny—serious, absurd, and exact—it is spiritual without doctrine and philosophical without answers.
If a cat has ever found you, this book already knows your name.
Dr. Robert LiPuma is a multi-genre author and co-founder of Glimpse Publishing House. His books blend heart, hope, and quiet miracles, inviting readers to see meaning in everyday life. From memoir and spiritual parables to children’s stories and magical realism, his work celebrates transformation, resilience, and love. He lives in Rochester, NY, creating stories that inspire and awaken the soul.View all by Doctor Robert LiPuma
