The keeper of the ornaments

The keeper of the ornaments
By Dave Eggers

Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife pf profound quiet. When Daphne and her two young children move into the apartment next door, the noise is extraordinary and Cole assumes he’ll have to move. But his new neighbors, and their odd cats, see him differently than he sees himself, and he soon adopts an entirely new persona.