![]() ![]() The dog’s “large hazel eyes are strikingly human,” the narrator writes to her mentor, who committed suicide. The multifaceted narrative primarily attempts to process the consequences of a mentor’s suicide through the writing of a lengthy letter that is suffused with “Catholic guilt.” Part of the enterprise is his Great Dane, named Apollo, who, as the narrator describes him, is good, kind, smart, warm, loyal, honest and, like the Greek god, inspirational-everything that most people are not. ![]() Several friends are mentioned in the novel, but the three friends significant to the story are an unnamed narrator, her unnamed mentor and a dog. Although the title would seem to refer to the dog pictured on the cover, the storyline is deliberately ambiguous-like almost everything in this book. ![]() Sigrid Nunez mines the effect of suicide on family, friends and even the pet dog in her National Book Award winner, The Friend. ![]()
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