Started Early, Took My Dog Bunnicula this collection of the year's

this collection of the year's best essays is selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman

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and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend

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Started Early, Took My Dog Bunnicula this collection of the year'sTracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her