โPowered by insight and true wit.โ โMeg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion
โI canโt remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . .ย What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman.โย โRichard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...
Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughterย of a famous photographer, she and herย brothers were the subjects of an explosiveย series of images in the 1960s known as theย Marx Nudes. Disturbing and provocative,ย the photographs shadowed the familyย long past the public outcry and mediaย attention. Now, decades later, both theย Museum of Modern Art and Hollywoodย have come calling, eager to cash in onย Beaโs motherโs notoriety. Twice divorcedย from but still entangled with aging rockย star Gary Going, Bea lives in Manhattanย with her borrowed dog, Dory, and sort-ofย sister, Echo. After years of avoiding herย past, Bea must make a choice: let the world inโand be compensated for the trauma of her childhoodโor leave it all locked away in a storage unit forever.
Carry the Dog sweeps readers into Beaโsย world as the little girl in the photographsย and the woman in the mirror meet atย the blurry intersection of memory andย truth, vulnerability and resilience.