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Title: Where the Trail Grows Faint
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team
Author: Lynne Hugo
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0803224516
EAN: 9780803224513
ISBN: 9780803224513
Publisher: Bison Books
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Home Garden & Pets
Release Date: 01/07/2009
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Weight: 181g
Book Series: River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
Release Year: 2009
Description: “This is Hannah,” Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. “Would you like to pat her?”
 “I don’t know,” the woman responds warily. “Dogs are complicated.”
So, of course, is life, especially as the years accumulate and the body declines. In fact, it is precisely the most painful complications that Hugo hopes to ease with Hannah, her exuberant therapy dog.
Where the Trail Grows Faint is the story of Hugo’s experiences with Hannah and the elderly patients they visit. In return for their visits, Hugo unexpectedly receives an outpouring of stories as the residents respond to Hannah’s antics and affection. As Hugo’s involvement deepens, she begins to see her own life and her care for her elderly parents in a new perspective. Interweaving the elders’ tales—of old loves and ancient dreams, abandonment and loneliness, and the struggle for dignity—with her own family’s story, she creates a richly textured collective portrait of the often-hidden world of the aged. At the same time, she crafts an eloquent meditation on the fundamental human need to nurture and remain connected to other people, to animals, and to the natural world.

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