Men and Dogs
A Novel

I think if I lived in or had any ties whatsoever to San Francisco or the Carolinas, I would probably have appreciated this novel more. Hannah, the protagonist, is 35 and a complete mess: alcoholic, adulterous, immature, and totally self-indulgent--lost and stuck in a teenage frame of mind. I kept tr......more

Men and Dogs. What a great title for an interesting, sometimes hilarious, and always thought-provoking novel. Often I am given books to review where the title or the cover art don't make sense to me after reading the book, but Katie Crouch and the folks at Little Brown have hit the nail on the head......more

I don't know. It's hard to truly like a book when the main character is a self-indulged, spoiled attention whore. I mean, yes, poor baby girl was abandoned by her father, who might or might not be dead. And yet I had zero sympathy for her, which is a good indication that she wasn't drawn in a partic......more

I read in one review that this book was about characters who were unlikable but sympathetic, or something like that. I found them both likable and sympathetic. The book revolves around a disappearance that happened many years in the past and was never resolved, and I’m not going to tell you whether......more

According to the author, this work of fiction was actually born out of a true story. Her great-grandfather “went fishing in North Carolina in 1913 and never came back. There was no bad weather or anything, but all his family found was his little fishing boat floating in the river. He didn’t seem dep......more