Buddy

Pete Hamill meets John Grogan in this heart-warming, humorous, and wise memoir of a man who learns how to live by living with animals.

After the death of his beloved dog, Harry, Brian McGrory's life changed drastically: He fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian; he gave up the city single life for a wife and two daughters in suburbia; and along with two dogs, two cats, and two rabbits, he acquired a portly step-rooster named Buddy. While Buddy loves the women of the house, he takes Brian's presence as an affront, doing everything he can to drive out his rival. Initially resistant to elements of his new life and to the loud, aggressive rooster, Brian eventually sees that Buddy shares the kind of extraordinary relationship with Pam and her two girls that he wants for himself. Buddy, his nemesis, becomes Buddy, his inspiration, in this inherently human story of love, acceptance, and change.