Ghost Dogs

""This may be the best book you'll read in years."" -- Bill Heavy - Wall Street Journal ""Andre Dubus III’s idea of an essay is tantalizingly simple: tell something important that happened to him—suddenly having big money and not knowing quite how to cope with that, loving his long-divorced parents, growing up poor and outlasting it, not loving his dog as much as he worries he should. Here is human life often cloaked in transporting mystery. Dubus possesses a rare and empathetic brilliance."" -- Richard Ford ""Andre Dubus III is a literary treasure. These tender, elegant essays come to us directly from his battered heart, his noble soul, his powerful reckoning with the legacy of his childhood. To read this book is to touch the pulsing core of what it is to be human."" -- Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires ""Andre Dubus III is a poet of masculinity. In the lyrical autobiographical essays of Ghost Dogs, he limns not toxic masculinity but its opposite: a masculinity rooted in family life, love, and hope…In carefully crafted words, Dubus III both records and enacts his transcendence of the often brutal facts of his upbringing and our time."" -- Elissa Greenwald - New York Journal of Books ""Dubus’ sentences glide on a level pitch seamlessly dovetailing into the poetically poignant. Within Dubus’ vast heart lies a pugilist intent on defeating his own demons."" -- Bill Kelly - Booklist (starred review)