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.
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..
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.
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