![]() ![]() ![]() Pincer’s accountant, a toupéed teddy bear of a man who drives a battered Econoline van he calls the Dog of the North. ” She’s picked up at the Santa Barbara train station by Burt Lampey, her grandmother Dr. “In the past twenty-four hours,” she says at the outset, “I’d abruptly left my job, burning a bridge that I was happy to cross for the last time, and I’d confronted my husband Sherman: I know all about Bebe Sinatra and the cocaine. Sadly, no matter how many times you try to pause so it won’t be over, it still ends-with a decent outcome for its protagonist, thank heaven, because by that time you will be fully in love with Penny, a socially awkward, deeply idiosyncratic misfit with trauma in her past, somewhere on the spectrum between Elizabeth Zott of Lessons in Chemistry and Eleanor Oliphant of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. One suspects it also reflects McKenzie’s state of mind while writing this delightful narrative, and it soon becomes relatable for the enchanted reader. ![]() The unattributed epigraph of this book-”For a while I went berserk, and wished it would never end…”-is eventually revealed to be an excerpt from the journal of one of the characters. Ron Charles, The Washington Post THE DOG OF THE NORTH Kirkus ![]()
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