A Dog in Georgia
A Dog in Georgia
Review Quotes: Named a Best/Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Zibby Owens and New Jersey Monthly Review Quotes: "The pleasure of the novel is in watching Amy's transformation ....
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Review Quotes: Review Quotes: " A Dog in Georgia is a banger about rebooting your life... [an] education in what American life looks like from the outside."-- Minnesota Star Tribune Review Quotes: "A New Yorker takes her identity crisis -- along with her love for animals -- abroad. . . . tart, emotionally attuned."-- The New York Times Book Review Review Quotes: "Heartwarming moments, vivid characters, wise insights... A Dog in Georgia has it all. . . . a journey of self-discovery and joy." -- Woman's World, book club pick for August Review Quotes: "[A] perfectly... magnificently... intricately crafted story of a woman on a mission that becomes a greater journey than she could have imagined... You won't forget Amy or the dogs. But you especially won't forget the people of Georgia, their love for their dogs, and their desperate love of freedom, as well as the futility of protesting Russia's iron fist. Is that futility, in all too many ways, a warning of what may be coming to America?"-- Bookreporter.com Review Quotes: "A Dog in Georgia is a story of self-reflection and self-reclamation, as well as an exploration of the human connections and fulfillments one can find in places one never thought imaginable. But it is also a fictional rallying cry -- one that can be heard by any concerned American citizen paying attention to America's ongoing political spiral. It is both refreshing and necessary -- for dog lovers and the politically-minded alike."-- Southern Review of Books Review Quotes: "Wry and searching . . . What A Dog in Georgia does particularly well--better than many novels preoccupied with reinvention--is refuse the language of reinvention altogether. Amy does not "find herself" so much as re-encounter her own appetite. A Dog in Georgia is a winter book in the best sense: reflective without inertia, warm without sentimentality. It is a novel for readers who suspect that care has become compulsory, that self-erasure often masquerades as virtue, and that appetite--culinary, emotional, intellectual--remains one of the last reliable forms of truth."-- Georgia Today Review Quotes: "Readers will fall in love with [Grodstein's] tenderly rendered characters, all of them (like all of us) a bit messy.-- The Boston Globe Publisher Marketing: In this beautiful story of connection and self-reflection, a missing dog in Georgia sets Amy Webb on an adventure away from her tumultuous marriage and towards a journey of self-discovery and joy. Amy Webb is a chef. Or rather, she was a chef. Somewhere along the way she also became a wife and a stepmother and an emergency contact, and the part of her that was a chef disappeared entirely--along with her sense of self. Which is why she is currently in the republic of Georgia, on a mission to find a lost dog named Angel, and, more importantly, the life's purpose she once took for granted. For months, Amy has escaped by watching Youtube videos of Angel walking the children of Tbilisi to school. When Angel goes missing, Amy volunteers to go find him. The fact that her husband may be having (another) affair and her stepson is away at college probably has something to do with it. Who is Amy, after all, if she's not taking care of other people? But to her surprise, Angel proves elusive, and while she does make friends with a number of stray dogs, what she finds in Tblisi is entirely human. Is she happy in her marriage? What happened to her career? Why doesn't she ever cook anymore, even just for herself? Helping her on this journey of self-discovery is a rebellious teenager, a mysterious and attractive Russian, and several post-Soviet grandmothers. And, of course, the rich food and culture and complicated politics of Georgia itself. After a lifetime of looking away from her own needs and appetites, Amy is forced to confront what she really wants and how to finally find herself-- And a dog. Review Citations:
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Author: Grodstein, Lauren
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 2025-08-05
BISAC: Fiction / Animals|Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce|Fiction / Women
Subjects: Married women|Lost dogs|Georgia (Republic)|Voyages and travels|Self-actualization (Psychology) in women|Cooks|Fiction|Novels
Weight: 1.08 lbs
ISBN: 9781643752358
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781643752358
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