The orange cat bistro [WorldCat Entities]

"A novelist becomes friends with the heroine in her book and their lives intertwine. They help each other solve their man problems and generally straighten themselves out. A first novel."@en
"Claire leaves her pretentious and arty husband because he declared that her dream journal did not have enough Freudian imagery. Claire realizes that her dream is actually to spend some time alone on her personal and artistic development as a novelist. She rents an apartment above a bistro in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Claire pours all of her pain and doubt into a first novel featuring an unconventional heroine named Nevada whose trials mirror Claire’s own. As the novel progresses and Nevada takes on a life of her own, Claire finds herself changing as she realizes how much her life has been affected by a dark secret from her past. As she struggles to fully become her own woman within the whirlwind of the Manhattan art scene, Claire knows that the character she has created will only be able to come to life when she acknowledges her difficult past."@en
"After leaving her husband Claire rents an apartment above a bistro and begins to write her first novel. As Claire continues to write, she begins to realize just how much a dark secret from her past is affecting her life. Only when she comes to terms with her past will her character ever evolve."@en