cat's cradle

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The noodle master in the open kitchen stretches and twists the strings of dough as if mimicking a game of cat’s cradle.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022

The book is constructed like a cat’s cradle, a chronological double helix.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2019

No other series has propelled such a massive yet impeccably individualized cast through such an impossibly intricate cat’s cradle of story lines that honestly should have collapsed long ago but didn’t.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2019

A cat’s cradle woven from shreds of a woman’s biography, it nonetheless can snare the heart.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2019

He was a stout boy with braces so heavily rubber-banded that his mouth looked like a cat’s cradle.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart