Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (Review by Katie Lohan)

Racing in the Rain

By Garth Stein

Review by Katie Lohan

The book starts out in Seattle, Wa, on a rainy day when the dog, Enzo, is relating to the readers his life; and how it is intertwined with his owner, the up-and-coming-racecar-driver, Denny. He is a mutt from a farm unquestionably out of the way of the city, and was picked out by Denny out of the blue as a pup. Enzo is there for the girls who enter, the one who stays, his daughter, and the sticky situations that follow when Denny's wife, Eve, becomes tragically ill. Her parents come from the snoody side of Seattle's bay, and as Enzo narrates this time in their lives and his take on the emotions being thrown around, you see that dogs -as well as humans- find the snobby public ridiculous. And as Eve becomes more and more ill, there is question about where her and Denny's daughter will go if this wonderful woman of their lives dies. Read to find more gawking details and events that make this book one in a million out of all the cheesy dog books.

I chose this book because of the enthralling plot and emotion that Garth Stein portrays in the dog. Being a dog-lover, it was a great read. Reading animal first person books can be very tedious at times, they're either unrealistic or comically infantile. But Stein continually surprises the public with the emotions he gets across and the situations that convince you -successfully- to read more.