Susan H. (symphonie) reviewed on 5/25/2006 + 158 more book reviews

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Sam Peek's children are worried. Since that "saddest day" - the day his beloved wife of fifty-seven good years, Cora, died - no one knows how he will survive. How can this elderly man live alone on his farm? How can he keep on driving his dilapidated truck down to the fields to care for his few rows of pecan trees? And when Sam begins telling his children about a white dog, as white as the pure driven snow, that seems invisible to everyone but him, his children think that grief and old age have racked their father's brain.

But whether it's a real canine or phantom, Sam Peek - "one of the smartest men in the South when it comes to trees" - outsmarts them all. Sam and White Dog will dance from the pages of this bittersweet novel and into your heart, as they share the mystery of life, and begin together a warm and moving final rite of passage.

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