A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons In the Good Life From an Unlikely Teacher
Sue Halpern
2013, 312 pages
Nonfiction
Don’t judge this book by its cover. It has a goofy picture of a dog with a nurse’s cap perched on her head. But this book is more serious than it appears. Writer Sue Halpern and her dog, Pransky, complete therapy-dog training and start visiting the county nursing home. Sue recounts how she and Pransky interact with the people there. In response to this, Sue contemplates the virtues, such as faith, fortitude and hope. About hope, she writes “It is a defiant act of creativity and of imagination. . . Hope is the thing with feathers because it lets the earthbound take flight.” Sue and Pransky give joy to a lot of people, and Sue learns a lot from Pransky, a loving, unlikely teacher.
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