One Night Two Souls Went Walking
Description
A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-ready dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients--young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives--their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns to Coffee House Press with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.
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About the Author
Ellen Cooney is the author of nine previous novels, including The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances (Mariner Books, 2015). Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Ontario Review, New England Review, and many other journals, and were anthologized several times in TheBest American Short Stories. She has received fellowships from the National Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and has taught creative writing at Boston College, the Harvard Extension School, and, most recently, as writer in residence at MIT. A native of Massachusetts, she lives on the Phippsburg Peninsula in mid-coast Maine.
Reviews
Praise for One Night Two Souls Went Walking
"A poetic story of wandering souls, filled with the beauty of human encounters and the sorrows of departure." --Dorthe Nors
Praise for The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances
A New and Noteworthy from USA Today
A Best New Book of the Week from People
"This book will grab your heart and not let go." --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me
"A wise, engaging meditation on dogs, love, and recovery from pain. Come. Sit. Read!" --Lily King, author of Euphoria and The Pleasing Hour
Praise for Ellen Cooney:
"This remarkably talented author writes in a refined, understated prose." --New York Times Book Review
"A writer with style and heart." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"Ellen Cooney has a talent for creating fine, quirky characters." --Washington Post
"Ellen Cooney's laser-bright writing, zany sense of humor and unerring ear for dialogue cannot be praised highly enough." --Mademoiselle
"Cooney writes with light grace." --Boston Globe
