“In prose both lyrical and spare, she captures the beauty of a foreign land, the comedy of cultural clashes, the mystery of love lost and found ... I was engaged from start to finish.”

—John Grogan, author of Marley & Me and The Longest Trip Home

A jaded young New Yorker is brought back to life by what she finds in Italy: Not the food, not the fashion, not a Ferrari or a Fabio — but a small, spotted, bird-obsessed hunting dog named Marcus ... read more