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One Dog Happy
by Molly McNett
University of Iowa Press, 2008
Paper: 978-1-58729-687-1 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-737-3

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

In this award-winning debut collection, Molly McNett couples laugh-out-loud dialogue and wry observation reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor with disquieting strains of dashed hope, troubled sexuality, and disillusionment.

The adults in these stories can seem as hapless and helpless as the younger characters. Two neglected daughters use the language of clothes to cope with their parents’ divorce and their father’s mail-order bride. A young girl’s bizarre sexual fantasies help her gain control over the chaos of her family life. A gang of teenagers accuse a farmer of bestiality. A divorced father tries to create a pony-filled world that might appeal to his daughters. In the title story, Mr. Bob, the minister’s housesitter, loses a dog but finds someone to believe in. And in “Helping,” the darkest story in this amazing collection, Ruthie’s anger conquers her religious faith when she takes care of a severely disabled child.

We meet McNett’s endearing, often foolish characters at a point when their minds are open to manipulation by the people and events around them, and the conclusions they draw are heartbreaking: I am not allowed weakness; life treats people unequally; perhaps there is no God. Yet throughout they find quiet moments of possibility, courage, and a return to faith and comfort.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Molly McNett’s work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005, Brain Child magazine, Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, New Letters, Crazyhorse, and Other Voices. She lives on a farm in northern Illinois with her husband and children.
REVIEWS

“These are stories for people who love stories, who dig characters and dialogue and a little nudge of plot, who find the close observation of all those small marvelous encounters that make up our days so essential to short fiction. One Dog Happy is charming and generous, smart and lovely, the gift of a subtle and compassionate writer to readers everywhere.”—Charles D'Ambrosio, author, The Dead Fish Museum and Orphans “Molly McNett writes beautifully and movingly about characters at their most compromised—divorced, or poor, or taken for granted, or trying to survive the limbo between childhood and adolescence. These clear-eyed and compassionate stories strike a wonderful balance between humor, insight, and toughness; each one is a surprise and a pleasure to read.”—Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author, Madeleine Is Sleeping

TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Contents
Catalogue Sales / 
Bactine / 
One Dog Happy / 
Alewives / 
Ozzie the Burro / 
Wishbone / 
Helping /
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