To think that this is the author's first novel, taking over ten years to write, and the book ends up on the New York Times best seller list! What an achievement!
Rather than adding more comments as in a review (cf. LATimes), I want to share my reason for loving the book. It includes dogs! Granted this fictional aspects of the book, the fact that dogs can be successfully trained is well-known. I just know that it is far from easy. My dog is great, but I realize how poorly I have trained him. Per chance I were to forget this, my wife reminds me of it regularly.
Training a dog requires skill, but it also involves understanding a dog. The author captures the uniqueness of each dog, how the dog functions and the various ways the dog responds. There is art and psychology combined with the technical aspects that enable the transition from an animal to a dog that epitomizes our hopes when we become involved with a dog.
Surely, the dogs depicted in this novel are not in the same league as my dog. And I have to live with the fact that I am the cause. The dog is only as competent as its master!
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