A Three Dog Life
A Three Dog Life
Author: Abigail Thomas
Desc: When Abigail Thomas’s husband Rich was hit by a car his brain shattered. Subject to rages terrors and hallucinations he must live the rest of his life in an institution. He has no memory of what he did the hour the day the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great change of moving to a small country town of a new family composed of three dogs knitting and friendship of facing down guilt and discovering gratitude. It is also about her relationship with Rich a man who lives in the eternal present and the eerie poetry of his often uncanny perceptions. This wise plainspoken beautiful book enacts the truth Abigail discovered in the five years since the accident: You might not find meaning in disaster but you might with effort make something useful of it.