Last night I was catch up on my massive backlog of podcasts and found myself with Stein's Nancy Pearl interview playing as I dozed off. Pearl's description of the book was what hooked me - who could resist a book written from the POV of a dog? Particularly when an evil demon zebra is mentioned? 
 And so I found myself in the library this morning, specifically to get this book - they had three copies at the local branch - and I started reading it this afternoon. 
 (view spoiler)[I knew how it started and ended based on the interview with Stein, so I was prepared for the tears (and crazy amounts of tears they were), but I wasn't prepared for the behaviour of Eve's parents. I could see it coming (also, the blurb gave it away), and if I had known about it before I became so hell bent on reading the book it probably would have stopped me from reading it. But, of course, Enzo made it all better by deliberately shitting on their rug. 
 The ending in Italy ... as soon as that chapter began, you just knew. And for me, that caused the tears to flow even more. :-) (hide spoiler)] 
 I finished the book about 10 minutes ago and it really makes me want to cuddle the much-missed animals who have been in my life over the years. 
 Blah blah, something about it being a lovely story about what it means to be human and so on; rah rah the use of metaphors etc. Really it is a funny, heartbreaking, and truthful story about life told from the POV of a dog. What more can you want?