num_pages: 160
description: Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially strange–where one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet, while another lands a cat-faced circus freak for a roommate, and yet another must choose between his pregnant wife and the ten-pound slug he’s convinced will bring him a fortune. And throughout these stories moves a divinely inspired collection of dogs: three-legged, no-legged, dogs that sing, that talk, and that give birth to humans. Brilliant, perplexing, and moving, this is a daring debut that strolls along society’s fringes and unearths strange beauty among its misfitsFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
title: Dogwalker: Stories
titlecomplete: Dogwalker: Stories
genres: Magical Realism, Collections, Anthologies, Short Stories, Animals, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 835
publisher: Knopf Publishing Group