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The national bestselling memoir of a friendship between a New England outdoorsman and the scrawny foxhound who came to his door one snowy day.
In the midst of a blizzard, late one Christmas night in the 1950s, author Hal Borland heard a howl at the back door of his home on a hundred-acre farm in the Housatonic Valley of northwest Connecticut. Resistant at first, he called around trying to find an owner whose dog had gone missing—with...

A memoir in which the author recalls the last year of her husband's life, discussing their decision, upon learning he had cancer, to transform a dilapidated barn in the Connecticut countryside into a beautiful home, and sharing details of her own journey into an independent life.