Stay: My Forever Friendship with an Aging Dog

A heartwarming and humorous memoir about one woman's naïve attempts to ignore, deny, and will away her dog's mortality.

After a slew of untimely goodbyes to childhood pets, Lisa's first act as a newly-graduated and -married twentysomething was to adopt a dog of her own. She made a vow to four-month-old Dakota: to give her a long, happy life and to be there for her until the very end.

After nearly thirteen years of inseparable companionship and adventure, Dakota is beginning to show signs of a...