The Little Gifts: 2025
The year is 1968, and Irene Owens is 11. Irene loves stargazing from the roof of her fathers luxury apartment in Chagrin Falls, but when her father begins to court a prospective new woman, Irene finds herself alone with her notebooks full of stars, the people in her apartment building, and a stray cat she's named Little Gift as she attempts to adapt to this new life.
The year is 1994, and Irene Owens is 37. She now watches over her father during his dying days. Once again home in Chagrin Falls, she finds reassurance in her telescope, new friends, unexpected love interest and of course her cat as she attempts to, once more, adapt to this new yet oddly familiar life.
THE LITTLE GIFTS is a story about grief, growing up and letting go of the places and the people we thought meant the most to us. It's a story about the past we had and the future we can make. It's also a story about a cat.
