We’re thrilled to announce we’ll be publishing Pocket Dog by Jim Garland, to be released fall of 2023.
Pocket Dog is a smart, upmarket rom-com about Ollie Allyinphree, a hapless and perpetually single (if charmingly nerdy) research librarian in Boston. When Ollie comes into a sizeable fortune, he begins to receive marriage proposals from women all over the world. One relationship after another falls through until, with the help of a long-lost twin brother and a mysterious tiny rescue dog, Ollie learns how to overcome his passivity and take the risks that lead him to find and name what he truly wants.
Pocket Dog explores themes of taking risks in relationships and decision-making, the limits of knowledge and logic, and the meaning of love.
About the author
Jim Garland grew up in Kansas City and graduated from Princeton (AB), Cornell (PhD) and Cambridge U. (postdoc). He was professor of physics and executive dean of arts and sciences at Ohio State and for ten years president of Miami U. of Ohio. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Garland is the author of more than a hundred scientific papers, essays, and opinion pieces. His humorous debut novel, Pocket Dog, started life as a classroom exercise in a course he audited at Ohio State. His non-fiction tome, Saving Alma Mater: a Rescue Plan for America’s Public Universities, (University of Chicago Press) has been described as hilariously unfunny.
Garland lives and writes in Santa Fe, on a hundred cactus-ridden acres, accompanied by three dogs, six chickens, a very tolerant spouse, and a courtyard bull snake named Beatrice.
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