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32 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1983
About the author
Michael Jay
55 books2 followersMichael Jay is an American author, education advocate, and resort community developer whose award-winning memoir, Dog Water Free, explores the moral and emotional formation of a boy confronting love, loss, and responsibility during the defining years of adolescence.
Detroit-born, Michael attended Detroit Catholic Central High School with the help of an anonymous benefactor, graduated from Harvard College, and earned an MBA from Northeastern University. In his career, he has developed award-winning destination resort villages, including the Village at Squaw Valley USA in California (now Palisades Tahoe) and Tamarack Village at Tamarack Resort in Idaho.
Throughout his career, as a Harvard College Admissions Committee Alumni Interviewer, Michael has advocated on behalf of high school students across the Western United States, listening closely to the formative questions young people ask as they prepare for adulthood. That work deeply informs Dog Water Free, a coming-of-age memoir focused on the years when character is shaped long before clarity arrives. Michael Jay lives in Idaho.
AWARDS
Recognized as a Distinguished Favorite by the NYC Big Book Award Committee and honored with an IndieBRAG Medallion for Nonfiction, this full-hearted memoir has the engaging quality of a "truth is stranger than fiction" adventure.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dog Water Free captures the turbulent yet transformative years between childhood and early adulthood. Called a “mother-son memoir of lasting consequence” by a past president of the Women’s National Book Association (Lynn Henriksen), this memoir of formation follows Mikee, a middle child. His early adolescence is defined by a maelstrom of fateful events involving a solemn, prayerful bargain made in response to his mother’s terminal illness and then irrevocably altered by the sudden death of his father. It begins in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit and ends on the island of Nantucket before the candles are lit to celebrate his 26th birthday.
As Mikee attempts to interpret grief through a child’s flawed logic, the narrative traces how values are absorbed, not through strict instruction or adolescent rebellion, but through sustained observation of a parent living with dignity under pressure. Rather than framing maturity as escape or rupture, Dog Water Free locates meaning in endurance, stewardship, and the quiet inheritance of conduct that could only be endowed by an enlightened mother whose days are numbered.
Detroit-born, Michael attended Detroit Catholic Central High School with the help of an anonymous benefactor, graduated from Harvard College, and earned an MBA from Northeastern University. In his career, he has developed award-winning destination resort villages, including the Village at Squaw Valley USA in California (now Palisades Tahoe) and Tamarack Village at Tamarack Resort in Idaho.
Throughout his career, as a Harvard College Admissions Committee Alumni Interviewer, Michael has advocated on behalf of high school students across the Western United States, listening closely to the formative questions young people ask as they prepare for adulthood. That work deeply informs Dog Water Free, a coming-of-age memoir focused on the years when character is shaped long before clarity arrives. Michael Jay lives in Idaho.
AWARDS
Recognized as a Distinguished Favorite by the NYC Big Book Award Committee and honored with an IndieBRAG Medallion for Nonfiction, this full-hearted memoir has the engaging quality of a "truth is stranger than fiction" adventure.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dog Water Free captures the turbulent yet transformative years between childhood and early adulthood. Called a “mother-son memoir of lasting consequence” by a past president of the Women’s National Book Association (Lynn Henriksen), this memoir of formation follows Mikee, a middle child. His early adolescence is defined by a maelstrom of fateful events involving a solemn, prayerful bargain made in response to his mother’s terminal illness and then irrevocably altered by the sudden death of his father. It begins in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit and ends on the island of Nantucket before the candles are lit to celebrate his 26th birthday.
As Mikee attempts to interpret grief through a child’s flawed logic, the narrative traces how values are absorbed, not through strict instruction or adolescent rebellion, but through sustained observation of a parent living with dignity under pressure. Rather than framing maturity as escape or rupture, Dog Water Free locates meaning in endurance, stewardship, and the quiet inheritance of conduct that could only be endowed by an enlightened mother whose days are numbered.
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