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Plot Overview: Cat’s Eye Elaine Risley, an artist, returns to her home town of Toronto for a showing of her art work. Elaine's visit triggers memories of her childhood with all the urgency of a bad rash. Dominating her reflections are her childhood "friends," three girls who wreak havoc on Elaine's self-esteem. Having spent her early childhood on the road with an entomologist father, a less than traditional mother, and a brother more concerned …showed first 75 words of 387 total…

…showed last 75 words of 387 total…of suicide. Elaine takes Sarah and leaves Jon. She finds a job, continues painting, and makes it as a feminist controversial painter. The novel ends with Elaine regretting the loss of Cordelia. This is a story in which the lines between victims and oppressors blur, in which forgiveness becomes an act of gaining power. Through humor, pain, and insight, she makes us see, with surprise and recognition, details from childhood we may well have forgotten.