“A Dog in Georgia” by Lauren Grodstein is a story of personal growth and development. Amy travels from New York City to the country of Georgia, ostensibly to find a lost dog named Angel. In reality, Amy is embarking on a quest to face herself and the meaning and purpose in her life. “A Dog in Georgia” is the story of one individual who chooses to interact with another culture, and a reflection on our lives as Americans. It is well written and contains multiple layers that invite the reader to think about the interconnectivity of our lives and the many choices available to us.

Thank you to NetGalley and Algonquin books for providing me with an Advance Readers Copy.

Amy has been following YouTube videos about a dog named Angel, in the country Georgia, who helped walk children to school. When Angel goes missing, Amy decides she has to help, so she travels to Georgia to help search for Angel.

Amy is grappling with evidence of yet another affair from her husband, she is searching for Angel to get away from her own troubles. While in Georgia Amy stays with a family who offers her a room in their home, she starts to make friends with the family and learns more about the country where she is staying. Amy finds that Georgia is dealing with some political unrest and while there she starts out on a path to her own self-discovery, a later in life coming of age story.

This was my first book by Lauren Grodstein and it did not disappoint. Overall, this was an enjoyable read.

Marriage in crisis, addiction, step parenting, cheating, mid-life crisis, travel, self discovery, set in NYC / Georgia (the country!)

I absolutely LOVED this book! And the author is great too, she's hilarious IRL and writes such relatable stories (even if you're not the same age as the characters or in the same situations).

The premise is that Amy, whose escape is looking at dog videos on YouTube, decides amist the chaos of her life, to drop everything and travel to Georgia to help find a lost dog. Not just any lost dog, but a special one - there are many strays on the streets of Georgia (and many other countries).

She ends up in some *situations* but learns about herself along the way. I wish I could read it again for the first time.

As someone who really enjoyed Grodstein's last book, We Must Not Think of Ourselves, this one did not disappoint. The main character is questioning her life, commitments, self-fulfillment, etc., and steps outside of her comfort zone in the process of reassessing and rearranging her priorities. I found the struggles compelling, the characters complex and believable, and the setting unusual and interesting. The story would not have been the same in a more traditional setting.

This is the first novel I've read by Lauren Grodstein, but after reading "A Dog in Georgia", I will be adding her other books to my TBR list. I loved this novel. It takes place in NYC and the country of Georgia. The main character, Amy, is a New Yorker who is going through something hard. Let's generalize and call it familial. Georgia is also going through hardship, also familial--if you cast the current autocratic government as the tyrannical parent and Russia as the evil stepmother. Lob in a sexy and mysterious Russian, a multi-generational houseful of strong Georgian matriarchs, a spitfire of a teenage girl with revolution on her mind and few dozen dogs with big personalities and you get a story that is both charming and intense. There's also quite a bit of delicious detail devoted to food. You might get hungry reading. It scratched all of my good story itches. It made me sit up straighter as I saw looming similarities with our Country's own newly elected autocratic wannabe. But mostly, I missed the DoginGeorgia world and the characters who lived in it. Really good writing. Really good story. Really good book.

I am obsessed with Lauren Grodstein 's newest novel (not out yet but pre-order, trust me), A Dog in Georgia (the once Soviet country, not the American state.) About how and why we save people, and how we learn to save ourselves, the novel follows Amy, a wife and mother, who goes to Georgia to find a missing dog, and instead, discovers the achingly missing pieces of herself. About politics and protests, love and lust, the book does what the best books do: immerses you in a foreign culture (with unnerving parallels to ours) so raw and intimate, you see, hear and taste it. Oh my God, this novel.

Laura Grodstein has a great book coming out this summer. A Dog in Georgia was such a great read. I loved it.

Wow, this really hit me in the feels because I identify a lot with the main character. Loved it!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this arc in exchange for an honest review!

I enjoyed this book a lot! I liked the way that it showed a womans life and how you can be part of so many things an din the blink of an eye you see where you are at in life! it was a good book and it had me thinking a lot while reading it!

Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complimentary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!