![]() ![]() Denny explains that the key to racing in the rain is to remember that "that which we manifest is before us." A driver must be proactive because what he initiates, he can control. ![]() And so, the lessons learned on the track are just as applicable when the dog poo hits the fan in real life. But what he does, what he's learned from Denny, is that race car driving can be a metaphor for life. ![]() But Enzo sticks by Denny's side, both as a companion and a voice (so to speak) of reason.Įnzo is a dog, to be sure, so there is much he doesn't understand. If I were a dog, I'd buy that for sure!)Įnzo lives with Denny, an amateur race car driver, Denny's wife Eve and daughter Zoe. (He also thinks that the domestication of dogs was a conspiracy by humans to prevent them from evolving further. ![]() In fact, he feels like he's ready to be human now. Enzo is annoyed that he doesn't have thumbs and can't talk, but comforts himself with the notion that in his next life, he'll be human. You've heard about this book, right? (No shame if you haven't - I hadn't until about 14 people recommended it on my Dog (Book) Post.) It's narrated by dog named Enzo. I haven't been that near to bawling my eyes out while reading a book since I was like nine years old! Wow - what an emotional wallop! Even as a football-watching, beer-drinking, dude-lit-reading, red-blooded American male, I say the following without an ounce of sarcasm: Garth Stein's The Art of Racing in the Rain is one of the sweetest, most heart-wrenching stories I've read in a long time. ![]()
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