Soon enough they come to accept their son's mysterious difference, and he learns quickly to communicate - with both people and dogs - through signing.Īt 14, Edgar has an increasingly responsible role in canine duty, from which he takes enormous pleasure. The couple's child is born mute, a much-desired baby "who smelled faintly like fresh flour and tasted like the sea, who slept in their arms and woke and compared in puzzlement their faces with the ether of some distant world, silent in contentment and silent in distress." On an idyllic plot of rural Wisconsin land, Gar and Trudy Sawtelle raise and train a remarkable breed of dogs recognized for their compassion and preternatural intelligence. I kept asking myself, "Where in the world did this book come from? Who is this David Wroblewski?" And then even those questions disappeared, and I was gone, transfixed by a gorgeously written, edge-of-your-seat tale. From the opening scene, I was in the thrall of a wondrous bafflement, the way one feels having come upon a rare discovery. Its 576 pages were not enough for me I did not want it to end.
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