A Head on the Arm, A Shadow in the Room: On Coco, Toxic Love and My Cats
Mar 04, 2026
Fatima Bhutto’s highly anticipated memoir, The Hour of The Wolf (Granta, 2026), is ostensibly a powerful memoir of grief, love and heartbreak. For Shanzay Asim, who read it in the company of her own cats, Yoko and Tintin, it also reads as validation for the devotion to her own pets. Moving from an unconditional love of (and from) a pet, Bhutto’s Jack Russell Terrier, Coco, to the toxic love of a narcissist, the memoir is a forensic examination of how we can survive the wreckage of human cruelty by clinging to the purity of animal devotion.
