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Learn moreDr. 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 ragtag dog-loving addicts—and discovers that a chaotic, unplanned life might be the sweetest of all.
Ann Garvin, PhD, is the USA Today bestselling author of five funny and sad novels about people who do too much, in a world that asks too much from them. Ann teaches in the low-residency master of fine arts program at Drexel University and lives in Wisconsin with her anxious and overly protective dog, Peanut. She is the founder of the Tall Poppy Writers and is dedicated to helping authors find readers and vice versa. For more information visit www.anngarvin.net.
Susan Boyce is an award-winning audiobook narrator. She has recorded over ninety audiobooks in a variety of categories, and her talents have been put to work by industry giants such as Amica, Hasbro, and Mattel. She earned a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Rhode Island in 1979 and has worked on-stage at Trinity Repertory Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and every major Ragtime and Traditional Jazz Festival in the United States.
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“The story of a woman who had everything, lost everything, and now wants to shoplift the rest.”
“Few authors are funnier or more sympathetic than Ann Garvin and few heroines more in need of comic relief and sympathy than Dr. Lucy Peterman. The Dog Year is a kind, gentle, honest look at a woman whose life has come apart and a survivor who puts it all back together.”
“Garvin is insightful about grief and the pervasiveness of denial…With humor and compassion, Garvin shows how recovery depends on honesty…and on helping others, whether stray dogs or stray people…Hopeful but not saccharine, this novel offers a deeply sympathetic view of recovery from grief.”
“The quirky cast of characters in The Dog Year keeps this book interesting. Lucy is familiar with tragedy, and despite trying to fill her life with work and stolen goods, she cannot move on from the past…This fast and entertaining novel will keep readers on their toes, never knowing what Lucy and her cohorts—along with their zany dogs—will get themselves into next.”
“Hilarious, insightful, and heartbreaking…A deeply intimate story of tragedy and recovery that readers and book clubs will treasure.”
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