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Jetson’s Journey

“I’ve written about a dog who upended a family, so I’m a hard sell on dog books. Jetson’s Journey isn’t one. It’s a clear-eyed novel about grief and second chances that happens to have a great dog at its center—and it announces a writer worth watching.”
David Elliot Cohen, The New York Times bestselling author of THE WRONG DOG

“…a story worth reading—and loving.”
—Midwest Book Review

In the tradition of REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES and THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN—a novel about the grace of a dog who refuses to give up on a man who’s given up on himself.

Kindle edition $4.99 through September 15. $9.99 after.

Michael Sawyer had a career, a family, and a life that fit the way it was supposed to. Then, in a single day, all of it was gone. He drives east with a duffel bag, a painting his daughter made him that he can’t bring himself to look at, and Jetson—the black Lab she loved, the last living thread to the family he lost. He ends up in Franklin, Tennessee, where he stocks groceries, walks the dog, and quietly begins to write. He doesn’t expect the bookstore owner who reads his pages and tells him they matter, or the wary neighbor who’s been keeping watch all along, or that Franklin would have a place for him.

 

Michael meant to disappear. Jetson had other ideas.

Jetson’s Journey Interactive Map

Every mile Michael and Jetson drove—from a Menlo Park driveway, over the Sierra, across the desert, to the heart of Franklin, Tennessee—mapped stop by stop.

Interactive Map Image

The Real Jetson

Readers ask, and the answer is yes—he's real. Six years of photographs and film, from the whelping box to Franklin.

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