The Dog of the North
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen
'Incredibly funny and very moving' BELLA MACKIE
'A blissful novel that I want to give to everyone I love' NINA STIBBE
'Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie's wonderful last' KAREN JOY FOWLER
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she's quit her job, her parents have been missing in the Australian outback for five years and now she's back home in Santa Barbara, dealing with mounting family crises and living out of a borrowed van named The Dog of the North.
The Dog is replete with gingham curtains, wood panelling, a pinata, clunky brakes and difficult steering. It's also Penny's getaway car from the curveballs life's throwing at her. With an uncertain future ahead of her, could the road she's on lead her back to herself?
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen, long listed for the 2016 National Book Award. Her collection, Stop That Girl, was short listed for The Story Prize, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal Best Book of the year. She is the editor of My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology, and has been recorded for NPR's Selected Shorts.
Author: Elizabeth McKenzie
Format: Paperback, 336 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 360 g
Published: 2024, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023
The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen
'Incredibly funny and very moving' BELLA MACKIE
'A blissful novel that I want to give to everyone I love' NINA STIBBE
'Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie's wonderful last' KAREN JOY FOWLER
Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she's quit her job, her parents have been missing in the Australian outback for five years and now she's back home in Santa Barbara, dealing with mounting family crises and living out of a borrowed van named The Dog of the North.
The Dog is replete with gingham curtains, wood panelling, a pinata, clunky brakes and difficult steering. It's also Penny's getaway car from the curveballs life's throwing at her. With an uncertain future ahead of her, could the road she's on lead her back to herself?
Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of the novel The Portable Veblen, long listed for the 2016 National Book Award. Her collection, Stop That Girl, was short listed for The Story Prize, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal Best Book of the year. She is the editor of My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology, and has been recorded for NPR's Selected Shorts.