01932cam a2200325 i 4500 368654322 TxAuBib 20190122120000.0 170403s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017011191 9780735219441 0735219443 40027999370 (OCoLC)981507732 TxAuBib rda Nunez, Sigrid,. The friend / Sigrid Nunez. New York : Riverhead Books, 2018. 212 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion. 20190122. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Grief Fiction. American fiction 21st century. Psychological fiction.