Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home - Couverture souple

Georges, Nicole J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0544577833 ISBN 13 : 9780544577831

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2017

Synopsis

From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet

When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression, relationships gone awry, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene, Beija was there, wearing her “Don’t Pet Me” bandana. 

Georges’s gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing—a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets, dog whisperers, and even a pet psychic for help, but it is the moments of accommodation, adaption, and compassion that sustain them. Nicole never successfully taught Beija “sit,” but in the end, Beija taught Nicole how to stay.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nicole J. Georges is a professor, writer, and illustrator, who has been publishing her own zines and comics for twenty years. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura and the diary comic Invincible Summer. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0544577833
• ISBN 13: 9780544577831
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
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