Karma Is a Cat: The True Stories of Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button Swift - Hardcover

Jacobs, Farrin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593837584 ISBN 13: 9780593837580

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2025

Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first book featuring the true story of the loves of Taylor Swift’s life: her cats!

Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button are much more than footnotes in the story of Taylor Swift’s life. They’re in her music videos and ads, they’re on magazine covers with her and all over her social media, and they even travel with her when she goes on tour. With adorable, full-color art, Karma Is a Cat is the first book to feature their inspawring stories. Discover the facts behind the fur and find all kinds of hidden messages in this purrfect read for Taylor Swift fans and cat lovers of all ages!

In these pages, you’ll find:
• The story of their adoptions
• Fun facts about their breeds and personalities
• Adorable illustrations of events in their lives
• And so much meowre!

Get to know these feline siblings as they experience life with one of the biggest superstars on the planet!

About this title

About the Author

Farrin Jacobs is an editor of bestselling and award-winning children’s books, writer, and proud cat lady. A New Yorker at heart, she currently lives in Los Angeles. 
 
Katty Huertas is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator born in Colombia and based in Washington, DC. She’s collaborated with clients like Disney+, HBO Max, Adobe and her work has been shown in galleries across the country. Currently, she is a senior designer and art director at The Washington Post.

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“You can’t spell CATS without TS”

Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button were unlikely siblings. It was the love of one woman that made them a family. That woman happens to be Taylor Swift, an international icon. She is an award-winning singer-songwriter, captivating performer, successful businessperson, supporter of human rights, and of course, most important, a lover of cats. The cats’ story is also Taylor’s story. And her story is one of a happy, talented child who grew up in a supportive family and who loved animals. She’d had cats when she was younger—Eliehsen and Indy. Little is known about these beloved feline Swift predecessors (may they be living out the rest of their nine lives in a state of grace). They were family cats, though, different from the cat family Taylor went on to build.

Taylor has never been shy about proclaiming her love not just for her cats but for cats in general—and for this we adore her. Is it because they share so many qualities? Independent, observant, complicated, self-assured, attracted to shiny things . . . Taylor even attended cat school to prepare for a role in the movie version of Cats, a hit Broadway musical. By all accounts, she threw herself into the lessons and passed with flying colors—no surprise, really, because Taylor is very purr-ceptive.

It’s possible that cats have been helping Taylor in small ways as she traveled her career path, and not simply by being cute and snuggly (or charming and standoffish, as cats can, and have every right to, be). As she said in an early interview, it was a “‘dad video’ type of thing, with the cat chewing the neck of my [guitar] and stuff like that,” that helped Taylor get her first manager. One of her singersongwriter inspirations, Joni Mitchell, is also famously a “cat lady,” as is Patti Smith, a singer-songwriter and poet whose name is featured in the song “The Tortured Poets Department.” Tapestry, an album by another hero of Taylor’s, Carole King, featured her tabby, Telemachus, prominently on the album cover.

In her almost two decades of being in the public eye, Taylor’s fashion, musical genres, and guys have come and gone, but her love of cats has been constant. As she herself has pointed out, you can’t spell cats without TS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593837584
• ISBN 13: 9780593837580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Huertas Katty
• Number of pages: 64