Book jacket image for The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

Penguin Press

9780593300695

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The Dog of the North

Through Penny’s eyes, we see the beauty in the seemingly broken, in the flawed stories we tell ourselves—and what happens when those stories delightfully shatter.

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Review of ‘The Dog of the North’

If the title of Elizabeth McKenzie’s third novel (after The Portable Veblen) were the strangest thing about it, it would still be remarkable. Luckily for readers who like their books odd, haunting, strange and surprising, it isn’t. 

As The Dog of the…

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