Title: The dog
Description: Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, a young man leaves New York to take an unusual job in the strange desert metropolis of Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la where he struggles with his new position as the "family officer" of the capricious and very rich Batros family.
Subjects: Rich people, Young men, Household employees, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, humorous, general, Middle east, fiction
Places: Dubai (United Arab Emirates)