as our new release of the week: Sight Hound. By Pam Houston (W. W. Norton & Company). From the bestselling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness comes a love story between a woman and her dog, a wolfhound named named Dante. Rae is Dante’s human. “She’s met with professional success as a playwright, but her personal life is a shambles after a series of failed relationships. She relies on her dog for the constancy she has not found elsewhere,” writes Barbara Lloyd McMichael in The Seattle Times.

“Author Houston strings together a series of first-person narratives, giving different characters a chance to voice their takes on Rae’s situation, and on her relationship with Dante (which will seem extraordinary only to people who don’t have pets — animal lovers will understand completely the bond she has with her dog). As fans of Houston’s writing have come to expect, her characters are outspoken and original.”

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