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A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients - young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives - their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns to Coffee House Press with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.
About the Author
Ellen Cooney is the author of ten novels and stories published in The New Yorker and many literary journals. A fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, she was a writer in residence in the writing program at MIT for many years, and she also taught creative writing at Boston College and the Extension School of Harvard. A native of Massachusetts, born in 1952, in Clinton, she now lives in midcoast Maine. To find out more, visit http://ellencooney.com/.
