Juliana Strawn, an Alabama high school student spending a week taking a fiction class in New York City, loves cats and pondering the meaning of life and death. She juxtaposes pictures of cats with quotes about the meaning of life from historical and literary figures like Maya Angelou, Robert Heinlein, and Jonathan Larson. The final pages contain macabre and science fiction themed short stories and poems. The layout is color copied and hand bound with red string.