Author Henry Hoke will discuss the book with Ryan Pfluger at North Figueroa Bookshop in Highland Park on June 8 at 7 p.m.
“I thought, ‘Well, at some point, I’m going to run into this cat. It’s going to have to happen,’” Hoke recalls in a telephone conversation from New York, where he now lives. “It didn’t, but just the idea that there was this big cat just out of sight in the park was really powerful for me.”Hoke turned his fascination with the puma into a novel, “Open Throat,” published on June 6 by MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His book follows heckit, a queer mountain lion that lives in L.A.
“I thought about all the different experiences of people that this cat might have encountered, might have seen, and how would it ever make sense of it?” Hoke recalls. “I thought it would be a fun way to encapsulate what my time in L.A. was like, with everything overheard, everything encountered sort of fleetingly and mysteriously and unfulfilled.”
Later in the novel, heckit makes another friend: Jane, the 18-year-old daughter of a rock star named Slaughter who lives in the Hollywood Hills. Jane, a fledgling witch, names the cougar after the Greek goddess Hecate; heckit, in turn, refers to Jane as “little slaughter.” “Jane was an indoor-outdoor cat,” he explains. “I grew up in a little wooded neighborhood in the center of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, not so close to major roads. It wasn’t a place where I was worried about the cat roaming around. The cat would really kill everything. This was a bloodthirsty little cat that would then sit with me on my pillow at night and lick my hand or my cheek, so sweet and companionable. But also I knew how fierce it was.
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