Nearly everyone who has lived with dogs keeps a private ranking. In this collection edited by Alice Hoffman, fourteen writers name the dog at the top of theirs.
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Essay collection edited by Alice Hoffman; Scribner hardcover, 2026, 240 pages
Essays by Isabel Allende, Chris Bohjalian, Bonnie Garmus, Roxane Gay, Emily Henry, Ann Leary, Tova Mirvis, Jodi Picoult, Elizabeth Strout, Amy Tan, Adriana Trigiani, Nick Trout, Paul Yoon and Laura Zigman
Covers life with a dog from a new puppy to a dog's death
Each essay centers on one animal and the writer who shared a house with it. The pieces run from a puppy's arrival to an old dog's last days, and the book does not skip the goodbye. Because the contributors come from literary fiction, popular novels and nonfiction, the voice changes from one essay to the next while the subject holds steady: a particular dog, remembered in detail.
Dog owners, readers who follow any of these writers, and anyone who likes essays short enough to read one at a sitting will find a book that can be dipped into in any order. The title makes one claim. Fourteen writers make it for fourteen different dogs.
About the Editor
Alice Hoffman has written thirty works of fiction, among them Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers and Magic Lessons.
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