I found this book impossible to put down—but I knew I had to make it last. So I forced it out of my greedy hands and didn’t rush through it, to the end. Still, the end came exactly when it should have, neither too early nor too late. The author is a masterful plotter! Somehow she manages to let a topic down gently, so you don’t feel robbed, but bring in a new twist seamlessly, so you don’t feel jerked around.
Okay, enough hinting around. It’s a story of an old woman with a dog who speaks to her. You immediately love them both, deeply. And the woman’s history, which she reads to her friends in a memoir writing class, is harrowing and wonderful. Alternately and both at once. And then we’re back to present time…and then back to the past, and….
And that’s all I’m going to say. One of the best novels I’ve read in a long time.
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