Day of the Dog

by Douglas K. Pearson, Kevin Max (Narrator)

Wendell Shyly knows when the "dogs" will attack the girl. He hates them. He loves her. He plans to stop the attack, to rescue her. He fails. That's when Wendell plans his own kind of war.

A story about gang violence, criminal sexual conduct, and class warfare where a boy becomes a man by redefining rescue and accepting the consequences of his own brand of justice that puts both Catholic and Protestant theologies to the test.

Douglas K Pearson taught inside Michigan's 'Punk Prison,' the state's Level 5 maximum-security prison for teenagers charged as adults, an experience that fed into the sociopathic currents of this novel. But it was his work as an American literature teacher at a Christian high school that best exposed him to the cruelty of the human heart, as well as humanity's ability to find redemption in the darkest places.

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First published February 8, 2011

About the author

Douglas K. Pearson, Michigan native and journeyman, currently winters west of Rockford, MI with his cool bride of 19 years and their three kids. During his summers, he sails his family around the Great Lakes on their ketch, Learnt’s Wake, pilgrimages to Europe and runs a conference or two. He is now working on a novel, Blood Line and helping in the production of the movie, The Frontier Boys.

Reviews

[Nikki Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story was kind of morally muddled. I don't read every book expecting to get a clear cut direction from it, but this seemed to broach very intense and thought provoking topics without ever letting the reader come to a conclusion about them by way of the characters. I did enjoy it, however. If unanswered existential questions are alright with you, you won't mind this book. There are many grey areas in this story, as in life. Don't expect there to be any lines drawn here.