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Dog Water Free: A Memoir

A Coming-of-Age Story About an Improbable Journey to Find Emotional Truth

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Dog Water Free: A Memoir

Written by: Michael Jay
Narrated by: John Warren Hart
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 What happens when a young boys first great reckoning isnt with a schoolyard bully, but with God himself? At ten, Mikee wants a dog more than anything in the world. His father refuses. A year later, he learns the real meaning of heartbreak when his mom tells him she is dying. At least youll always have your dad, long after Im gone, she tells him. Mikee cannot help but wonder: what good is it to have a dad if he wont even let me have a dog? So the boy takes his plea to a higher authority. He prays. Then he asks his father again. Again, the answer is no. Night after night, Mikee drops to his knees and tells God he will endure anything if only he can have a dog. Maybe then he wont feel so alone after his mother is gone. But while his mom is still hanging on for dear life, his father drops dead. Then, on the Christmas morning that follows, his puppy arrives. For one terrifying moment, Mikee wonders if God answered his prayer, and whether his fathers death was the cruel price. He buries the thought without ever speaking it aloud. Set against the working-class neighborhoods of Detroits Westside, Dog Water Free follows Mikee through adolescence. Shaped by a quiet inheritance of dignity from a mom who knows her days are numbered; he struggles to understand why he feels so very different from everyone else he has ever known. His journey carries him from Detroit to Harvard and beyond, into a world he could scarcely have imagined as a boy. Ultimately, at twenty-five, on a solitary pier on Nantucket, a memory buried since adolescence returns, bringing him face to face with a truth he has spent a dozen years unable to name. For readers drawn to Frank McCourts Angelas Ashes and Mary Karrs The Liars Club, Dog Water Free holds childhood up to the light, examining grief, family, and unexpected moments of humor with restraint and candor. As a memoir of formation, Dog Water Free explores the unseen burdens children carry as they grow up too fast: the bargains they make and the experiences they may spend years trying to understand. At the heart of Dog Water Free remains an understanding that coming of age continues into adulthood, and that working through grief follows no set timetable.©2012 Michael Jay (P)2025 Michael Jay Dysfunctional Families Family Life Growing Up & Facts of Life Parenting Relationships
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