Gone to the Dogs

"Guterson's latest (following We Are All Fine Here, 2005), delivers another wacky chick-lit heroine, twentysomething Rena, part-time Jew and full-time waitress, depressed and moping after being dumped for another woman. In a mad moment, she steals her ex's dog, and in the process of caring for Big Guy, she starts to recover from her depression and realizes it's time to move on from her college apartment, job, and lifestyle... there are many zany and refreshingly realistic characters, from big sister Aviva--a dope dealer turned both stay-at home-mom and Orthodox Jew--to possible love interest and amateur moviemaker Chuck. Suggest this one to Jennifer Weiner's many fans and to readers of Julie Powell's nonfiction Julie and Julia (2005) about another young woman struggling to find a life that works." --Booklist

"Hilarious, touching, and downright inspiring, Gone to the Dogs is unrestrained good fun and an irresistible read!" --Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author The Art of Racing in the Rain

"Fans of Jennifer Weiner will eat this up like good dark chocolate." --Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad and Confessions of a Falling Woman

"The sharp wit and keen observations of Gone to the Dogs had me compulsively turning pages. If Saul Bellow and Lucille Ball produced a love child, she would write like Mary Guterson." --Randy Sue Coburn, author of Owl Island and A Better View of Paradise