Travels with the Doggie Lama - Softcover

Tanzer, Lily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627472053 ISBN 13: 9781627472050

Publisher: Sojourn Publishing, LLC, 2018

Synopsis

Life in the middle of a big city can be scary. Lily, a young professional living alone in Houston during the mid-1980s, experiences a frightening brush with a near home-invasion. The unsettling episode is the impetus to seek out a home security system: a dog. Fear pushes Lily to purchase her new companion without thinking through the details and she finds the new addition to her life just as unsettling. Financial struggles, professional challenges, romantic wounds and the trials of being twenty-something all share the tiny apartment with Lily and her new puppy, Keisha. The carefree, adventure-seeking whims of Keisha are at odds with the order-loving, financially challenged Lily. And yet the irascible dog may be just what the doctor ordered. Once Keisha trots across the threshold, where weeks before the faceless intruder had sought to gain entry, Lily's life opens up in new, at times exasperating, ways and the adventures begin. Join this pair on their journeys: external and internal, humorous and touching. Laugh with Keisha's flagrant disregard for the law and social convention. Cry with Lily's struggles. Dip into another level of love and connection. Thirteenth century mystic Rumi once wrote: " There is a voice that doesn't use words: listen." Keisha may have a message for us all!

About this title

About the Author

Lily Tanzer is a native Texan, born and raised in Austin.  Always intrigued by human behavior, she earned a degree in Psychology from the University of Texas in 1985. At the age of twenty six, she welcomed a renegade dog into her life who further extended her studies in behavior - human and canine.

This furry soulmate, Keisha, introduced her to the subtleties (and sometimes dramas) of life with a dog and inspired Lily to chronicle her experiences in her first book Travels with the Doggie Lama.

Lily continues to be enamored with her four-legged family members and has been delighted to learn of the rich, often secret, lives of her canine friends.  She has come to understand that every dog has a story; a story that is meaningful and filled with the only thing that really matters in life: love (and maybe a few giggles).

Review

"Beautifully written, emotionally engaging..[Tanzer] does a great job of conveying the mysterious bond between dog and human, while not avoiding the annoying things dogs demand from their human partners.
-Bill Worth, professional editor, and authorof Outwitting Multiple Sclerosis: How Forgiveness Helped Me Heal MyBrain By Changing My Mind; House of the Sun: A Metaphysical Novel ofMaui; and The Hidden Life of Jesus Christ: A Memoir. 
 
 
"Lily Tanzer is a powerful new voice with a humdinger of a story to tell. TRAVELS WITH THE DOGGIE LAMA will make you laugh, make you cry, smile and feel alive. Put simply: this book will save you, if you let it." 
 
-- J.R. Angelella, author of ZOMBIE: A NOVEL 
 
 
"Lily Tanzer has written a delightful romp of a book!  Anyone who has ever loved a dog will be able to relate to her adventures with Keisha, surely a wise spirit who hails from beyond this world. I laughed and cried at Keisha's antics and empathized with Lily as she dove deep into herself and learned valuable life lessons from this very special dog. Travels with the Doggie Lama is both entertaining and insightful."
-- JudithBalian, Founder of Excoveries

About this edition

• Publisher: Sojourn Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1627472053
• ISBN 13: 9781627472050
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364