The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family - Softcover

"Deserves a blue ribbon . . . [Katz] does a terrific job of examining how dogs are handling their 'new work' serving as many a family's nurturer in chief."
--People

"[Katz] writes with sensitivity about human relationships with animals."
--Time

"Engagingly bittersweet . . . Katz's central thesis, that dogs have moved way beyond their past work, is certainly true."

--The New York Times Book Review

"Humorous, compelling, and heartrending, this is a breakthrough book from one of our most talented and perceptive canine chroniclers."
--AKC Gazette

The author of A Dog Year explores the diverse and changing roles that dogs play in the larger community of dog lovers, profiling a dozen human-dog relationships in a New Jersey town, including a terminally ill woman and her Welsh corgi and the Divorced Dogs Club, whose female members turn to dogs to help them rebuild their lives. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.