We Give our Hearts to Dogs to Tear

In We Give our Hearts to Dogs to Tear Alston Chase has pioneered what I think is a new literary genre; a metaphysical memoir with dogs.

After a career in academe, and a tour as an author of books on the role of fire in the ecology of the Yellowstone and the mind of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Alston comes to Montana looking for a new pair of glasses through which to see the world, and he is as surprised as anyone when they appear in the form of a series of small terriers which serve as a window into the land and the forces that have made it.

A lot of men dream about abandoning the maddening crowd, but few take the plunge to jungle up in a cabin 40 miles from a road in the winter -- and even fewer manage to talk their wives into joining them for the adventure!

We Give our Hearts to Dogs to Tear is more than a memoir about small dogs in Big Sky country, however; it is also a book about an adventurous life, an intrepid wife, and the passing of the baton from one generation to another.


What lasts? Alston Chase's surprising answer is a simple one: the dogs and the land.

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