Connie’s Book Club - Summer 2011
One Good Dog
By Susan Wilson
This captivating New York Times-bestselling novel deals with redemption and second chances, in intertwining narratives, the first from the point of view of Adam, an arrogant, hard-nosed businessman whose stress-induced violent act causes him to lose everything of importance to him, including his job, house, daughter, and social-climbing wife. He finds himself unemployed and single, reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter, where he must serve out a community service sentence which forces him to associate with a class of people he had long gone out of his way to avoid. The second narrative is from the perspective of Chance, a Pit Bull mix bred and trained to fight, who escapes and finds himself on the streets and on a direct path into Adam’s life. You’ll find yourself moved to both tears and laughter by the ensuing life-affirming story in which Adam and Chance each end up saving the other in ways neither could have expected.
This captivating New York Times-bestselling novel deals with redemption and second chances, in intertwining narratives, the first from the point of view of Adam, an arrogant, hard-nosed businessman whose stress-induced violent act causes him to lose everything of importance to him, including his job, house, daughter, and social-climbing wife. He finds himself unemployed and single, reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter, where he must serve out a community service sentence which forces him to associate with a class of people he had long gone out of his way to avoid. The second narrative is from the perspective of Chance, a Pit Bull mix bred and trained to fight, who escapes and finds himself on the streets and on a direct path into Adam’s life. You’ll find yourself moved to both tears and laughter by the ensuing life-affirming story in which Adam and Chance each end up saving the other in ways neither could have expected.