The constant switching of narratives in "The Cat and the City" can be quite challenging at times, especially when it comes to keeping track of who is connected to whom, but the voices are so unique for every character and the author staples them with clear defining traits that piecing them together becomes just about manageable with an extra focus, and personally I wouldn’t want it any other way. 

You can tackle this one as short stories, and you could easily take them as standalone and still appreciate the stories they hold. Not to mention  how the number of narratives make the city feel vibrant and alive with experiences that go beyond just one singular event, everyone has lives to lead that interweave and overlap, some more strongly than others. And despite all that, you can experience a sense of internal isolation despite the abundance of potential connections that are painted and explored masterfully, the downsides of the big city rush. Artistically it's a very creative take on short stories, however, there ends up being a handful of loose ends that I wish we could have seen coming to a more explored closure, I'd have liked to get to better sit with their last appearances but due to the nature of the experimental style, I didn't get that. Likewise, some of the characters presented were hard to sit through, but not in an endearing way that I could get behind. Some stories were downright bland compared to the emotional scenes happening in a previous chapter, and the odd one felt like it would have been from a whole different book.

All in all some beautiful stories interwoven between lives and experiences. It has some interesting things to say, but that comes with the mixed bag of some stories being harder to sit through, thus is the nature of short stories and portraying such vastly different characters all in quick succession.