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"Sprightly, romantic, occasionally sad but always diverting . . . The New Yorkers will inspire you to sit, stay, and beg for more."—Connie Ogle, The Miami Herald

"Schine is a sly writer with considerable dog and people skills. . . . Fine and precise [in] execution . . . Filled with a sweetness of life."—The Boston Globe

"Poignant and frankly funny. Schine has a gift for illuminating wholly believable yet somehow unexpected characters with a single line."—Chicago Tribune

"Schine writes about her characters with affection and humor . . . and has created a love letter to the city that even a rural cat fancier could enjoy."—The Christian Science Monitor

"There's plenty of unexpected romance, but it would be a mistake to think that this is merely a love story about dogs or their people. It's really about Schine's love for the city that contains them—a Manhattan of the not-so-distant past. . . . [A] rich snapshot of urban life."—Time Out (New York)

"Schine's sleek little parable about love and loss in the big city is neatly layered with intersecting stories of each character. A sweetly savvy paean to dogs and the people who love them."—Baltimore Sun

Karen Karbo

The perfect book to read while sitting on a bench, your dog asleep at your feet.
— Bookforum

Publishers Weekly

Just as the Upper East Side of Manhattan is the setting for stories about rich and evil rich women who oppress and depress everyone around them, the Upper West Side is the scene for romances that bud in the park or neighborhood cafes. Schine's frothy novel is Harry meets Sally and Rover. Walking her pit bull, Jody falls for Everett, even though he sometimes sports a pink umbrella, which Jody decides is a sign of masculine security. Polly forms a triangle with her mutt and her brother, George, who is a bit of a puppy himself. Nicole Roberts reads this romantic comedy with enthusiasm, but she isn't very strong on character voices. Polly sounds identical to Jody. George, Everett, Simon and the other male characters also sound pretty much alike. Only Doris, a local with a sharp tongue, has a suitable voice. Despite the lack of the true performance that this novel deserves, the sitcom cast and quick pace of Roberts's reading make this an amusing summer listen. Simultaneous release with the Sarah Crichton Books hardcover (Reviews, Feb. 26). (May)

Library Journal

Kirkus Reviews

"Love me, love my dog" might be the mantra of Schine's warm and fuzzy seventh novel (She Is Me, 2003, etc.). It's a romantic-comic roundelay set on and near a quiet, genteel street in New York City's Upper West Side, near Central Park. An amiable omniscient narrator introduces us to a neighborhood populated by urban professionals and students and favored by canines and their owners and "walkers." We first meet music teacher Jody, who deals with the approach of her 40th year and her loneliness by adopting a gentle part-pit bull whom she names Beatrice. Enter Everett, a recently divorced, dashing 50 year old burdened by fraying relationships with his ex-wife and college student daughter-and almost awoken from his lethargic egoism by Jody's obvious crush on him. Other humans appear, meet, mix, pair up, argue and fight, variously get together or break apart: handsome underachiever George, and his high-energy sister Polly (whose mutt Howdy is employed by George as a chick magnet); "asocial" social worker Simon, whose fixation on fox hunting (in Virginia) slowly yields to his love for Jody; gay restaurateur Jamie, who's supporting five kids and several ex-boyfriends; intemperate guidance counselor Doris, aflame with plans for "canine reform." So it goes, a kind of Midsummer Night's Dream minus the energy and charm. Most of the aforementioned urbanites are moderately interesting people, though none has a tenth of the personality exhibited by Beatrice and Howdy. The novel basically spins its wheels, even during the 2003 blackout, which you'd expect might rouse its characters to some kind of action. Everett does a passable imitation of Jack Nicholson's character in As Good as It Gets, but thenarrative is otherwise very nearly as generic as it gets. Comfy and inoffensive, but lacks bite. Agent: Molly Friedrich/Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency

The New Yorker

Schine writes with the speed and punch of a seasoned comic, conveying character in a single line of dialogue. - The New Yorker