New Indie Book Release:
There's a Hamster in the Dashboard: A Life in Pets - David W. Berner
Non-Fiction / Pets / Memoir (138 pages - June 2015)
There's a Hamster in the Dashboard is a collection of humorous, entertaining essays about pets covering a lifetime, from the author's childhood to present. The author understands that our relationship to our pets and to the world around us defines who we are as humans.
- "Berner's book is meant to be read and re-read. For an animal person, this is a return to childhood and growing up with companions that truly mattered along the way." - Reader Review
About the Book
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| Click to Read an Excerpt |
In There’s a Hamster in the Dashboard, Berner shares stories of “a life in pets”—from a collie that herds Berner home when the author goes “streaking” through the neighborhood as a two-year-old, to a father crying in front of his son for the only time in his life while burying the family dog on the Fourth of July.
And from the ant farm that seems like a great learning experience (until the ants learn how to escape), to the hamster that sets out on its own road trip (but only gets as far as the dashboard). Along the way, Berner shows that pets not only connect us with the animal world, but also with each other and with ourselves.
The result is a collection of essays that is insightful and humorous, entertaining and touching.
About the Author
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| Author David W. Berner |
Berner’s stories have been published in a number of literary magazines and journals, and his broadcast reporting and audio documentaries have aired on the CBS Radio Network and dozens of public radio stations across America.
He teaches at Columbia College Chicago.
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