“Book Descriptions: A teenage couple recites lines from Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise in lieu of a courtship. A young man gets more and more confused as he wonders whether the doctor he loves loves him back. In the title story, an unnamed narrator thinks about the inadequacy of the words that we use to describe the connections we form with animal companions.
In About the dying dog and five other stories, Paul S. de Guzman explores the ways we say—or refuse to say—“I love you.” Employing varying forms, styles, and voices, the six stories that make up About the dying dog and five other stories are, at heart, stories of love—erotic, romantic, and familial; human, divine, and animal.” DRIVE