Cat Ears: Stories of a Small Garden

By Yanira A. Rivera

A woman talks to her plants. She names a sprig of Cuban oregano after her own family, wages a losing war against an army of leaf-cutting ants, and asks an AI whether a tiny seedling is a flower or a weed.

But her small garden keeps opening onto something larger. Beside it sit her aging parents, full of stories she is racing to write down before they're gone - a panther on a road at night, a fig tree smuggled home in a coat, and a young woman in a banana port whose name her mother has guarded for seventy years and still won't say.

Cat Ears is funny, tender, and quietly devastating - a book about the small things that turn out to hold everything: what we plant without knowing if it will grow, and the kind of love that isn't romance and outlasts it anyway.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBFGQRW3
• ISBN13: 9798187797653
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"