James Riordan

In a world as fast paced and crazy as this one, it's easy to lose perspective on what's really happening and even more importantly, what really matters. Sidney Lament never learned those things during his busy life as a college professor, but upon his death Fate has decided to give him another chance to understand the meaning of life. There's only one problem - this time he has to do it as a female dog. This hilarious, but often poignant book is written from a dog's perspective?a dog that has already experienced life as a highly regarded human being, which society deemed both responsible and successful. It's amazing what you can miss when you're running the rat race, even if you're a pretty good runner. This time around Sydney (with a Y - now a female) gets to see things from a different point of view. Not only is he now a canine who remembers being a highly functional man, but. he belongs to a family that is deeply torn and marred by the effects of the opioid crisis. As they fight to regain Matt, the loving son they once knew, their struggle only immerses them further in the quicksand of the opioid addiction that has swept across America in the last decade. Watching Matt slip away, they try every option until they too become trapped in the dysfunctional world that is slowly killing their beloved.The opioid epidemic kills more people in American than gun violence, car crashes or Aids. Two hundred people die from overdoses every day. To most of us that's just a number, but for the family and friends of the more than 68,000 who died last year, it is far more than that. And for Sidney Lament, living a dog's life in a family desperately clinging to the love that had once held them together as their world crashes around them, the experience is heart transforming. Sometimes if you keep your ears open and your tail wagging you can learn a lot more at the bottom than you can at the top!

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