Black Dog Summer: A Novel
In this extraordinary debut novel reminiscent of The Lovely Bones and Little Bee, a mother watches from the afterlife as her teenage daughter recovers amidst the startling dysfunction of her extended family.A small, bright thread of a story weaves out from the moment of my passing and seems to...
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In this extraordinary debut novel reminiscent of The Lovely Bones and Little Bee, a mother watches from the afterlife as her teenage daughter recovers amidst the startling dysfunction of her extended family.A small, bright thread of a story weaves out from the moment of my passing and seems to tether me to this place. Perhaps this is why I have not left yet. Perhaps I have
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781476779027 (1476779023)
ASIN: 1476779023
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Sally is thirty-eight-years old when she is killed; then, she begins to narrate Black Dog Summer. A novel can be narrated by death (like Markus Zuzak's The Book Thief), a dog (as in Edward Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle), or a drug (consider James Hannaham's Delicious Foods). So, the decis...
3.5 I was not a big lover of Lovely Bones, and this book too is narrated by the recent dead, but for some reason I liked this one. I, know the atmosphere had much to do with this, it was melancholy and psychological but not without hope. The location too played into it, South Africa post apartheid w...
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