by Joshua Stephens
Melville House BooksHardcover
From the publisher's website:
From the it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time department: Anarchist Joshua Stephens needed a job to support his relentless activism against the bad guys of capitalist society. So he and some of his fellow activists decided it would be fun to start a business walking the creatures they all agreed were the wonderful opposite of the powerful politicians and big corporate types they spent their days protesting: dogs.
The only hitch: The dogs they were walking were owned by . . . well, the powerful politicians and big corporate types they spent their days protesting.
Rich with hilarious anecdotes, brilliant observations, and a powerful political conscience, The Dog Walker proves Stephens to be an Anthony Bourdain of the dog walking set, adept at detailing the charmingly odd tricks of the trade, and showing what dog walking reveals about everything from gentrification to street harassment, and why radical empathy must always anchor every interaction—canine or otherwise.
An irreverent and perceptive fish-out-of-water story, The Dog Walker is totally irresistible.
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