THE FRIEND

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left be hind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicabl e disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Is olated fr...[Read more]