Praise for LYING DOWN WITH DOGS
"The genius of Linda Caradine is how she builds memoir with anti-memoir. She avoids the science of herself, the precise idea of self narrative, and the rational explanations behind a life lived. Introspection is there, but so is extrospection. She wants to know as much as she can, but also adores what she doesn’t know. In her chapters, there is no reason to report a flower if she cannot bring us inside its blossom. This she does whether the blossom is a wounded dog, the girl who suffers old traumas, a woman who seeks love. Her feelings are so mutual, so corresponding, that no matter how personal, she can transfer them to us in a way that gives us a language for our own spoiled dreams."
Barrett Warner, author of Why Is It So Hard to Kill You?
About the Book
Lying Down with Dogs is a series of interrelated essays about the years Caradine spent starting and running Other Mothers Animal Rescue. As in any worthwhile endeavor, life has a way of intervening and she includes some of those non-animal adventures in her tale as it is all a part of the larger Other Mothers saga. From rescuing kittens under a house to finding a farm sanctuary that would take in a pig, from birthing puppies to cats in the freezer, she tells the inside – often crazy – story of what all is involved in managing such an enterprise.
About the Author
Linda Caradine is a Portland, Oregon based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her articles and stories have been included in numerous magazines and newspapers. Additionally, her essays have appeared extensively in the literary journals, including The RavensPerch, Summerset Review, Free State Review, Cobalt Review, Iris Literary Journal, Lowestoft Chronicle, 45th Parallel, Adelaide, Down in the Dirt, Drunk Monkeys, and others. She has won first place in the Edmunds (Washington) Arts Commission’s competition for Short Fiction with an account of a fantastical encounter with Bigfoot in rural Oregon.
When she is not writing, Linda manages a nonprofit animal rescue organization that she started in 2005. She is a past winner of the Oregon Humane Society’s prestigious Diamond Collar Award for her leadership in the field of animal welfare. Animals have always been one of her life’s passions.
When she is not writing, Linda manages a nonprofit animal rescue organization that she started in 2005. She is a past winner of the Oregon Humane Society’s prestigious Diamond Collar Award for her leadership in the field of animal welfare. Animals have always been one of her life’s passions.
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