The Boy and the Dog

ΓÇ£An amazing,beautiful book . . . It shows how one dogΓÇÖs dignified presence can bring connection and love to a fractured world.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇòCat WarrenNew York Times bestselling author of What the Dog Knows One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring novel about the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. Dogs had a special relationship to humans. . . . They understood the human heart and were attuned to it in a way no other creature was. Following a devastating earthquake and tsunamia young man in Japan finds a stray dog outside a convenience store. The dogΓÇÖs tag says ΓÇ£TamonΓÇ¥ a name evocative of the guardian deity of the north. The man decides to keep Tamonbecoming the first in a series of owners on the dogΓÇÖs five-year journey to find his beloved first ownerHikarua boy who has not spoken since the tsunami. An agent of fateTamon is a gift to everyone who welcomes him into their life. At once heartrending and heartwarmingintimate and panoramicsuspenseful and luminous–and deepened in its emotion by the authorΓÇÖs mastery of the gritty details and hardscrabble circumstances that define the lives of the various people who take Tamon in on his journey–this bestsellingaward-winning novel weaves a feel-good tale of survivalresilienceand love beyond measure.