In Search of Cleo: How I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind

Summary

Filmand television icon Gina Gershon may be best known for her movie roles in Bound and Showgirls and television appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Howto Make It in America, but deep down she is a self-described cat lady. In Search of Cleo follows Gina’sdesperation and despair when her assistant loses her beloved cat, Cleo. Ginaspends two months roaming the back streets of Los Angeles at all hours of thenight, searching for Cleo and meeting several quirky and outrageous characterswho help or hinder her in different ways, including Ellen DeGeneres, whosearches with Gina and recommends her pet psychic, Sonia; Arthur, the newspaperdelivery man who gives her advice; and the mysterious fortuneteller, whoappears from the shadows to give her a statue of Saint Gertrude, the protectorof cats everywhere.

Ginasoon finds herself enmeshed in LA’s strangest subcultures, doing everything shecan to bring Cleo home, including chanting with a bunch of crystal-wieldinghippies and being slapped with a chicken by a Santeria priest. Along the way,she reflects on the various cats that have been a part of her life and sharesher travails as a single girl in search of both her cat and some sanity.

In Search of Cleowill delight pet lovers and singletons alike as it introduces Cleo to thecelebrated pantheon of literary cats that includes Dewey, Homer, and Oscar.