Vereckey’s Memoir Praised as ‘Engaging Chronicle of Starting Over’

Kirkus Reviews praises Betsy Vereckey’s memoir, Moving to My Dog’s Hometown: Stories of Everything I Didn't Know I Wanted, calling it an “engaging chronicle of starting over.”

After Vereckey quits her job in New York City, she decides to move to Hanover, New Hampshire, which she only knows as the place where she adopted Ronan, her Glen of Imaal terrier.

“Trading her mouse-infested environs for bohemian chic, Vereckey moved in with Susan and Jake, the couple who bred the terriers. Residing in the apartment on the bottom floor of the main house, Vereckey began the slow, uncertain work of rebuilding her life. While there’s plenty here to make readers laugh, the narrative doesn’t shy from difficult moments, including the heartbreak of a quality-of-life decision for one of the dogs and Susan’s mother’s death; Vereckey conveys this material with genuine emotion and restraint,” the reviewer wrote. “Vereckey’s engaging voice and warm observations keep the pages turning. … The author isn’t offering a tidy reinvention story; she’s documenting the messy, slow process of finding one’s footing after loss. What results is less a saga of self-discovery than an honest portrait of someone trying to navigate through the unknown and figure out what home means when everything familiar has fallen away.”

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