On the heels of her family's beloved dog's death, one woman returns to the canines of her past in order to imagine the human she must become in the future Chloe Shaw is in a dog house of her own choosing. A married mother with kids, the death of Booker, her children's first family pet, has left her reeling and reckoning with her lifelong relationship with dogs. Unable to shake the feeling a year later, she asks her family for some time alone to be with nothing but her thoughts and remaining canines, Otter and Safari-only to find the dogs of her past pawing at her every memory and running, sticks in mouths, back into her life. What follows is a meditation on one woman's life in dog years. Since she was a child, Shaw had learned to escape the hardest parts of being human by immersing herself in the lives of her canine companions, an adaptive attachment that carried her to adulthood. Yet, in marriage and motherhood, Shaw finds herself facing her...