![]() ![]() Naturally, the dog is a Great Dane the woman, a self-described “cat person.” While this sounds like the perfect plot for the farce that will be next week’s sentimental television movie, the novel, fortunately, isn’t that at all. ![]() The premise appears straightforward: a woman who lives in a five-hundred-square-foot pet- unfriendly apartment has lost her friend and literary mentor, and now someone must take his dog. The inside jacket promised “a moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.” Having just lost our beloved dog, Wrigley, and deep in grief, I was both drawn to this dog-centric novel with its beautiful cover and a little afraid to read it. O the books we need find us? A few months ago, I purchased a used copy of Sigrid Nunez’s seventh novel, The Friend. ![]()
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