How To Carry A Dog (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798187311071)

Every house has someone who truly runs it. In ours, that someone was me.

Barbie is a Lagotto, a truffle dog, bred over six hundred years to find what lies buried. And a great deal has been buried in her house: a marriage gone stale, a father drowning in a secret, a girl with a dream she's afraid to say out loud. Barbie has smelled all of it for years. She simply hasn't found the tool to dig it up.

Then, one October morning, she falls and cannot get up.

What follows is the story of a family forced back into the same room, one small victory at a time, by the dog they're determined to carry back to her feet. Wise, funny, and full of heart, How to Carry a Dog is told by the most disarming narrator you'll meet this year: a dog who is certain, to the end, that she is the one doing the rescuing.

For anyone who has ever been carried by a dog and known it.