Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home

From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet

When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix--a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression, relationships gone awry, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene, Beija was there, wearing her "Don't Pet Me" bandana.

Georges's gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing--a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets, dog whisperers, and even a pet psychic for help, but it is the moments of accommodation, adaption, and compassion that sustain them. Nicole never successfully taught Beija "sit," but in the end, Beija taught Nicole how to stay.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 07/18/2017
ISBN: 9780544577831
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.10w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 05/15/2017
Booklist 06/01/2017 pg. 73
Shelf Awareness 07/18/2017