Housebroken: Three Novellas (2002)

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The title story in this collection of three novellas is one of the most affecting stories I've read in my entire life, and one that hasn't left me since I've read it. It chronicles, in dogpov, the sad decline of a dog from happy puppy to bitter, angry beast, set against its owners falling out of love and into bitterness themselves. The spare, innocent narrator, the dog, wants nothing but love, and his slow, creeping, puppy cynicism made me bawl my goddamned eyes out.The other two novellas are also brilliant -- Hedaya is a genius and her translator (Hebrew is her first language) Dalya Bilu does a remarkable, transparent job with the text -- but it's "Housebroken" that made me give the book five stars.

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