{"id":127,"date":"2020-06-08T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/?p=127"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:48:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:48:57","slug":"review-of-dog-crazy-by-meg-donohue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycatjeoffrybooks.org\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Review of DOG CRAZY by Meg Donohue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We found this wonderful gem<\/a> used at one of our favorite bookstores, Changing Hands<\/a>. Where would we be without our indie bookstores???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cover kind of makes the novel look like cute chick lit, but it is so much deeper and more serious and it contains some of the most beautiful, visceral evocations of dog \/ human love and what it\u2019s like to lose a beloved pet. Donohue has an MFA from Columbia and a BA in comparative literature from Dartmouth and it shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maggie is a young psychologist specializing in pet bereavement. She\u2019s just taken the plunge and relocated from her Philadelphia hometown to San Francisco to open her new practice when her beloved dog, Toby, is stricken with cancer and dies. She\u2019s so traumatized that she ends up an agoraphobe (like her mother), unable to leave her house. One of her new clients is Anya, whose brother has hired Maggie to help his sister overcome the loss of her dog. Anya\u2019s dropped out of school and lost her job over her trauma. Problem is, Anya doesn\u2019t want to overcome her dog\u2019s death because she believes her dog is still alive but has been kidnapped. No one in Anya\u2019s family believes her and Maggie is unsure whether the dog is still alive but is compelled by Anya\u2019s deep convictions to help her search. In order to do that, she, of course, must go out of her home, which she does initially with the help of her friend\u2019s therapy dog, Giselle, then with the help of Anya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story is part mystery \u2013 is Anya\u2019s dog still alive?, part story of friendship between the two young women, and part psychological journey to mental wellness. You just know Maggie will end up with one of the many dogs she helps along her journey \u2013 from the stray, to the rescue with behavioral problems preventing his adoption, to Giselle the therapy dog \u2013 and you\u2019re rooting for her to take one into her home and love him like she did Toby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a wonderful book particularly for anyone suffering the loss of a pet who needs to know they are far from alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sofia, our dog, poses with the book, and she gives it five scrumptious bonito flakes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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