A Curious Cat, Prowling Through 'Milk Treading'

By Jacki Lyden

Published December 14, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

British writer Nick Smith's Milk Treading follows an investigative-reporter type named Julius as he ferrets out facts about the suicide of his best friend. By the way, Julius is a cat. The novel is a mystery, but it has some parallels to George Orwell's Animal Farm Smith speaks with NPR's Jacki Lyden.

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