# Event Details - **Event Name**: STACEY YU: KITTEN at Books Inc. Alameda - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 12 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 12 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm - **Event Description**: Meet debut author Stacey Yu! She visits us to read and sign copies of her first novel Kitten.About this EventStacey will be in conversation with local author and friend of the store Addie Woolridge!About the book:A magnetic, novel about an adrift young woman whose growing fascination with her boyfriend’s cat ushers her into the possibilities of her own life—but not without first threatening to unravel it.Katie is far from home and fresh out of college, desperate to skirt adulthood’s demands, and all too willing to let her wealthy boyfriend James make decisions for them both. It doesn’t help that she’s no longer speaking to her mother, who resents her for leaving Little Rock. Or that her roommate has abruptly moved out of their New York City apartment. But when James takes Katie on vacation to his family’s seaside house, he brings Silver, his childhood cat, and Katie discovers a sudden, strange, and giddy sense of connection.Silver doesn’t mind that Katie can’t seem to get a job, hold her own at dinner parties, or make amends with her mother. Silver, who gets to lie around all day, misbehave spectacularly, be cute, gross, and still get fed, seems to have the life Katie increasingly longs for. Soon enough, they’re inseparable, and something inside Katie begins to crack open, or maybe just…crack.Because if Katie has learned anything from her estranged mother, it’s that devotion comes at a price. As Katie's affection for Silver deepens, all of her other relationships begin to falter. Soon, Katie must confront what it is she desires from her life, and what she might have to risk to get it.Both darkly playful and unexpectedly heartfelt, this debut from a major new voice in fiction is a timeless reckoning with the uncertainty of becoming a person in a world that is as disorienting as it is full of hope and promise.Stacey Yu is a Chinese American writer. She grew up between Texas, Arkansas, and California and currently lives in LondonBorn and raised outside Seattle, Washington, Addie Woolridge is a classically trained opera singer with a degree in music from the University of Southern California, and she holds a master’s degree in public administration from Indiana University. Woolridge currently lives in Northern California. She is the author of The Homecoming War and Reel Love and the forthcoming Win a Date with Julian Austin. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/alameda/stacey-yu-kitten-at-books-inc-alameda/100001990530680850 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, parties, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books Inc. Alameda - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Alameda - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Inc. Alameda - **lat**: 37.7635544 - **long**: -122.2431234 - **full address**: Books Inc. Alameda, 1344 Park Street, Alameda, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: STACEY YU: KITTEN at Books Inc. 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