The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love

by Melissa Fay Greene

Book Overview

From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062218514
• ISBN13: 9780062218513
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"