Loved it. Occasionally I could put it down but I could have picked it up again at any time and kept reading. I'm not sure why I pulled it from the library shelf but I'm glad I did. The prologue convinced me that the writer was no novice. As I approached the ending and saw a few clues of what lay ahead, I wondered what she was going to do and how she was going to pull it off, but she did just fine. A lovely book, from beginning to end.

You can read about it on Amazon. Adam March is a "self-made" man who loses everything with one thoughtless act. My thought as I learned about his life was that it wasn't worth losing but losing what you know and what you have isn't something that leaves anyone untouched. Adam ends up in a nondescript apartment, serving lunch in a homeless shelter, ignored on the street by men like he once was--successful, busy, self-important. When he's asked to find one homeless man's dog, Adam finds the wrong dog and ends up keeping it. The book alternates chapters on Adam and his dog, Chance.

I love to watch characters change, like Will Lightman in Nick Hornby's About a Boy or Philip Carey in Somerset Maughn's Of Human Bondage. I don't usually like books about cats or dogs, though I like them. But Susan Wilson does a terrific, understated job with Chance, a former fighting pitbull who slowly succumbs to the life of mutual ownership and responsibility.