![]() ![]() Ginger Pinholster, author of City in a Forest Rich with authentic characters and lovely descriptions of the natural world, Eva Silverfine’s big-hearted novel deftly tackles complex issues such as homeowners’ rights versus the collective good, and our instinctive desire to protect the garden that sustains us. ![]() How to Bury Your Dog weaves a quintessentially American story about our human connection to the land, the critters we love, and the people who complicate our lives – for better or worse. And as Happy’s elements return to the earth, buried memories find their way to the surface in increasingly curious ways. As the battle over the development unfolds, and the dynamics among Lizzy’s remaining pets shift, she opens herself to two young neighbors who share her love of the natural environment-an awkward sixteen-year-old and an inquisitive ten-year-old. ![]() But she realizes she can no longer keep the outside world at bay. For Lizzy this is a magical place, hidden from the modern world.Ĭoaxed by an old friend to join a group fighting the development, Lizzy is reluctant-she wants to avoid both hope and him. On the day she buries Happy, the abandoned basset hound she adopted years before, she learns a real estate developer is threatening the heart of her rural community-a tranquil pond and a relict stand of hemlocks. Lizzy has been leading an insulated life: she tends her adopted strays and goes to work at the blood lab, but she has forsaken lifelong pastimes and declines invitations from old friends. ![]()
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