The Dog Year

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Published by: Berkley
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Pages: 336
ISBN13: 978-0425269251

 
 

Synopsis

Dr. Lucy Peterman was not built for a messy life. A well-respected surgeon whose patients rely on her warmth, compassion and fierce support, Lucy has always worked hard and trusted in the system. She’s not the sort of person who ends up in a Twelve-Step program after being caught stealing supplies from her hospital. But that was Lucy before the accident — before her husband and unborn baby were ripped away from her in an instant, before her future felt like a broken promise. Caught red-handed in a senseless act that kept her demons at bay, she’s faced with a choice: get some help, or lose her medical license. Now, she’s reluctantly sharing her deepest fears with a bunch of strangers, avoiding her loneliness by befriending a troubled girl, pinning her hopes on her husband’s last gift, and getting involved with a rugged cop from her past. It’s only when she is adopted by a stray mutt and moves her group to the dog park that she begins to truly bond with the rag-tag dog-loving addicts—and discovers that a chaotic, unplanned life might be the sweetest of all…

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Praise

“Reminiscent of the best of Gail Parent and Alison Lurie, The Dog Year is the story of a woman who had everything, lost everything, and now wants to shoplift the rest, including the hope of life after the death of her heart, lost when her husband and child died in a dreadful accident. Ann Garvin’s writing sneaks up on you: it is hilarious, until it’s poignant, until it’s heartbreaking. She leave no heartstring untugged, no funny bone untapped, and every word she sets down is honest.”
 –Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times best selling author of The Deep End of The Ocean