When someone comes to us and says, «I have cancer» or «I
broke my
leg,» we don't
freak out and think, «I have no idea how to fix that, so I'm going to tell the person to get professional help and walk away.»
The debut collection of an O. Henry Award - winning short - story writer, Dogwalker assembles its cast from society's misfits: the disabled and the blind, the hapless and the troubled, and all species of mutants — including a giant slug that almost
breaks up a marriage, a preponderance of three -
legged dogs, and a family of circus
freaks who look remarkably like cats.