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Dog Crazy
A Novel of Love Lost and Found
A Novel of Love Lost and Found
By: Meg Donohue
Releasing March 10th, 2015
William Morrow
The USA Today bestselling author of How to Eat a
Cupcake and All the Summer Girls returns with an unforgettably poignant and
funny tale of love and loss, confronting our fears, and moving on . . . with
the help of a poodle, a mutt, and a Basset retriever named Seymour
As a pet bereavement counselor, Maggie Brennan uses
a combination of empathy, insight, and humor to help patients cope with the anguish
of losing their beloved four-legged friends. Though she has a gift for guiding
others through difficult situations, Maggie has major troubles of her own that
threaten the success of her counseling practice and her volunteer work with a
dog rescue organization.
Everything changes when a distraught woman shows up
at Maggie’s office and claims that her dog has been stolen. Searching the
streets of San Francisco for the missing pooch, Maggie finds herself entangled
in a mystery that forces her to finally face her biggest fear-and to open her
heart to new love.
Packed with deep emotion and charming surprises,
Dog Crazy is a bighearted and entertaining story that skillfully captures the
bonds of love, the pain of separation, and the power of our dogs to heal us.
Leanne shifts her gaze back to meet mine. “The other big news from the week is that I was finally able to watch Titanic.”
I glance down at my notes.
“Holy smokes!” she says. “I never told you the Titanic story?”
“I don’t think so.”
Leanne brightens. She’s an enthusiastic storyteller, a trait she claims was encouraged by her childhood dog, Bert, a Great Dane who had tolerated her elaborate dress-up games and soliloquies with the stoic countenance of a Buckingham Palace guardsman being photographed by a drunken tourist.
“Well, the night Darren brought Sealy home,” Leanne says, settling back into the couch, “we watched the movie Titanic. And by that I mean I watched the movie while Darren sawed his way through a forest’s worth of logs. Our new puppy slept through the movie, too, curled up in the tiniestlittle ball on my lap. I re- member petting her soft ears and thinking how crazy it was that I already loved her, how happy I was that there was anotherlife in the house.” She shrugs. “Well, you know. I missed the kids a lot.”
“Yes,” I say. “And who wouldn’t fall in love with a sleeping puppy?”
“Exactly.” She smiles. “So she slept there on my lap through the whole movie until finally the credits rolled and Celine Dion started singing her big‘My Heart Will Go On’ song.” She pauses. “You know the one, right?”
I begin singing dramatically, terribly, “Neaaaar . . . Faaaar . . . Whereeeever you are—”
Leanne laughs, begging me to stop. “I think you’ve got the right song,” she says, “but it’s hard to tell.”
I grin. “What happened next?”
“Well, the moment she heard Celine’s voice, Sealy, who had been sound asleep on my lap, sprang onto her tiny paws, pointed her nose at theceiling, and let loose the sweetest, crooning, elfin puppy howl the world has ever heard.”
“So Sealy is short for Celine?” I’d always assumed Sealy’s spray of black, seallike whiskers had inspired her name.
Leanne nods. “In her whole life, for the next eleven years, I never heard her howl at anyone or anything else. Only Celine Dion.”
Meg Donohue is the USA Today
bestselling author of How to Eat a Cupcake and All the Summer Girls. She has an
MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA in comparative
literature from Dartmouth College. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she now
lives in San Francisco with her husband, three young daughters, and dog.
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