DEAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN
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Excerpt from "Dead Dogs and Englishmen"
"The deadly summer of the worm began in spring when the tent worms crawled into my northwest Michigan woods after May blossoms faded on the wild cherry trees and tiny leaves first appeared on the Juneberry, when the trees bloomed again with thick, gauzy webs at every fork of their branches. Each of the sticky, white webs woven into the blackened and sickly trees writhed with thousands of worms. I tried not to notice the moving webs when I walked with Sorrow, my happy lump of a mixed breed dog. I hoped the worms would go away; that maybe the birds would feast on them. Maybe, I thought, they�d turn into moths and be nothing more than a nuisance after summer dark, pulsing around my porch lights and bombarding the window screens with buzzing thumps.
That wasn�t what happened. None of that."
"The deadly summer of the worm began in spring when the tent worms crawled into my northwest Michigan woods after May blossoms faded on the wild cherry trees and tiny leaves first appeared on the Juneberry, when the trees bloomed again with thick, gauzy webs at every fork of their branches. Each of the sticky, white webs woven into the blackened and sickly trees writhed with thousands of worms. I tried not to notice the moving webs when I walked with Sorrow, my happy lump of a mixed breed dog. I hoped the worms would go away; that maybe the birds would feast on them. Maybe, I thought, they�d turn into moths and be nothing more than a nuisance after summer dark, pulsing around my porch lights and bombarding the window screens with buzzing thumps.
That wasn�t what happened. None of that."
- "Buzzelli will have you packing your bags for a move to northern Michigan." - Kirkus Reviews
- "Emily is a detective for our times: She can't afford health care, but she can make flour our of cat tails and work three jobs at once." - Christian Science Monitor
- Kirkus Selections - Best Fiction of 2011
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