Later I was trying to describe to my partner the mix of belief and doubt this opening offered. I am a particularly gullible person with an overactive imagination. The long letter is followed by an understatement: “It seemed unbelievable to me” (3). In the first chapter, Myles receives a letter from a lawyer whose client, Rosie, is pressing “charges against her owner for a variety of abuses and crimes against dog kind” (3). I spent a whole morning trying to find a quote of Amy Hempel’s and I ended up in a search results list that told me what I already knew: dogs teach us lessons, dogs are better than people, and dog owners have a lot to say about all this.Įileen Myles’ new book, Afterglow, is “a dog memoir” whose central node is Rosie, Myles’ late pitbull, but it is not in any conventional sense a book about a dog. Their antics are one of the Internet’s enduring consolations.
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