Men and Dogs Author:Katie Crouch There are a few things about her father that Hannah Legare is sure of: he can maneuver a boat; he knows all the bones in the human body; he is a hero; and, someday, she'll find him again. You might think that Hannah -- now running a racy start-up company with her husband in San Francisco -- has moved on in the two decades since her father we... more »nt fishing and never came back. But Palmer, Hannah's brother, who dutifully stayed home with their mother in Charleston, South Carolina, knows she's still obsessed. When Hannah returns to Charleston after a frenzied break with her husband, Palmer can only imagine what mystery and mayhem she'll stir up.
MEN AND DOGS is a hilarious, affecting, and wholly original tale of siblings trying to reckon with their flaws, with a heroine as exasperating, magnetic, and breathtakingly real as family itself.« less
I expected so much more from this book and didn't get it. And it is not your typical chic-lit. But maybe that's why it is at least entertaining, if not good. I can deal with non-convention, but then I really need to know what is the point for having read this book; I'm not sure there was a point.