How I Came To Be Coal

About the Book

A black cat born in a round, red barn with no spots of white like his other family members plays "it" in a game of hide-n- go seek and gets lost. When he attempts to find his way back to his family, he travels into a yard and meets a dog and his owner. The lady unable to keep him brings him to a place where cats are given homes and he gets adopted by Haidy, a disabled woman who chooses him to be her companion. Now the adventures of Coal the black cat can begin.....

About the Author

Heidi Esmeralda Peratoner is a freelance writer and poet. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She contracted Bacterial Meningitis at birth. As a result, she is physically challenged and with a hearing loss. She moved to Beaverton, Oregon with her family at a young age. She moved to California as an adult to attend UC Berkeley. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in English With A Writing Emphasis from Dominican University. She went on to obtain a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has had several poems published in the National Library of Poetry Anthology. She is now a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and currently lives in Fairfax, California. She was inspired by Coal, her pet cat to write about his adventures out in the community where they lived. Her first book How I Came To Be Coal has recently been published by Xlibris and is now available.