The New Yorkers

People meet and fall in love via their dogs in this book of light fiction. Friends pointed me toward this book after I complained about the hours I've spent this summer with Al Qaeda and fundamental extremists and the poor of sub-Sahara Africa and the test-weary world of disadvantaged New Jersey schools. There is nothing that lingers in your bones after reading this book, nothing that leads you toward writing editorials to the Times. Simple little stories of relationships combined with the steady love of loyal dogs.