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What Readers Have Said about My Dog, The Meat Eater
“My Dog, The Meat Eater is a brilliant coming of age story that weaves together the innocence of childhood with the harsh reality of adulthood.”
~Elizabeth Farrell
"I sat down and read it straight through. It was fantastic. Dan did a good job setting up the characters (I had a feel for each one after only a few pages) and the dialogue was deliberate and meaningful. He conveyed his thoughts and messages very well by revisiting several recurring themes. Needless to say, I enjoyed the book very much, and I think he did a great job with it."
~Dan Stering
“In a lifetime that seems far too short, the boys who work the farm with Louie, their Puerto Rican companion and mentor, discover that the things they touch while living are forever affected after their death. Dan Trask’s novel, My Dog, The Meat Eater, is not only about this connection, but also about the connection between things that must inevitably come to an end. Tragic and unavoidable, the boys cannot work the farm forever. In a world where things don’t always turn out as one has planned, Trask shows subtly and gracefully the sadness, but ultimate acceptance one takes of the passing seasons. Overall an emotional and introspective book, My Dog, The Meat Eater will leave one with a feeling unable to forget.”
~Matthew Clark
“Daniel Trask’s My Dog, The Meat Eater, is a novella that eludes the reader of the text’s realities in such an astute manner that it brings to mind Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. However, the main difference is the manner in which Trask evokes such realizations via a trance like prose that is not only effective, but thoroughly resonating.”
~Louis the Fox
“If laziness has distracted you from taking a few hours to check out this revolutionary little book, wait no longer. You are doing yourself a great disservice. My Dog, The Meat Eater interweaves huge themes founded in ideas of age, wisdom, birth, death, and renewal. Its beautifully simple language evokes imagery that surpasses what thick words would only insult. Trask explores all aspects of life and the essential significance that each organism has; the plants, the tiny mice collecting corn kernels under the “red October sky,” the bears, the people, and of course, the dogs. Through the lives of loveable characters like Bear, the husky, slow, and careful worker, and Louie, the old Puerto Rican migrant who lovingly oversees the boys in their work, Trask shows the often overlooked act of farming as the dauntless and noble venture that it is. This book will sweep you up, bombard you with intense images and deep thoughts, and then smother you in melancholy leaving you humble and forlorn, moping in the dry dirt of the last tiny struggling farm in a city that, like so many American cities, was once deemed a great industrial capital but now stands as an old run down shell.”
~Sarah Daggett
“My Dog, The Meat Eater is unlike any other book I have read. Danny Trask’s often strikingly beautiful language gives the reader the rare and moving experience of being completely conscious of the entire world around them--a world where plants, animals, and people all equally, and often tragically, coexist. A remarkable and promising first book for the talented Mr. Trask.”
~Emma Weisman
“My Dog, The Meat Eater is a touching insight on life’s simplicities by a young author with the ability to capture our joy and hardships through a style all his own. The words leave tiny imprints in your mind that urge you ro re-read the novel multiple times and continually discover its beauty.”
~Meg Adams
“It was an intimate embrace of our most pure thoughts. The ones we tell ourselves when our eyes are shut, and our mind begins to dream of the realities we lack the courage to pursue. Dan Trask has captured this insight and splashed it about in his novel for everyone to read.”
~Colleen Farrell
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