A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home : Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
By Sue HalpernA layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life.
In late adolescence, Pransky was bored: she needed a job. and so Sue Halpern decided to give herself and her underoccupied Labradoodle a new leash--er, lease--on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy-dog team. Pransky proved to be not only a terrific therapist, smart and instinctively compassionate, but an unerring moral compass as well. In the unlikely-sounding arena of a public nursing home, she led her teammate into a series of encounters with the residents that revealed depths of warmth, humor, and insight Halpern hadn't expected. Little by little, their adventures expanded and illuminated Halpern's sense of what goodness is and does--how acts of kindness transform the giver as well as the given-to.
Funny, moving, and profound, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home is the story of how one virtuous--that is to say, faithful, charitable, loving, and sometimes prudent--mutt showed great hope, fortitude, and restraint (the occasional begged or stolen treat notwithstanding) as she taught a well-meaning woman the essence and pleasures of the good life.
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Book details
- Paperback
- 312 pages
- English
- 1594632693
- 9781594632693
About Sue Halpern
sue halpern lives in the green mountains of vermont where she writes books and articles, consorts with her husband, the writer and activist bill mckibben, Read More about Sue Halpern
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