She knows that she can always rely on animals to ground her and to offer her unconditional love and trust, even when they have been so abused that they are broken almost beyond repair. And Cami herself is skittish about starting a new relationship either with her best friend or with a like-minded stranger.Įqually weighted with the human drama in the novel are the cases that Cami sees in her clinic and on rescues. Into the mix, her almost grown daughter is having her own relationship troubles, spurred on by the collapse of her parents' marriage.

While she grieves the loss of her own marriage, she watches her parents celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, watches her soon-to-be-ex-sister-in-law plan the extravagant wedding she thought would never come, and watches her brother and his partner fight to adopt a baby into a relationship that can't be legally recognized. That her admittedly stagnant marriage is over completely blindsides her and is especially painful as the true reality of their estrangement comes to light. She and her husband have hit a rough patch in their marriage but Cami is shocked when she comes home from a particularly emotionally grueling rescue to find that Bobby is leaving her. Kittle's latest novel after Traveling Light, Two Truths and a Lie, and The Kindness of Strangers, deftly handles both while closely entwined with issues of love and marriage and the definition of a successful relationship.Ĭami Anderson is a successful vet who volunteers for animal rescues. But if I can't be a vet in real life, I still have a real affinity for vet stories and an even greater affinity for stories that include animals. Well, that and the whole biology class thing. There's something of a mystique about their jobs despite the fact that my sister says 90% of being a vet is about 'ears and rears.' Two good reasons I could never have been a vet myself. We are surrounded by vets and by the animals who need them. We have more than the usual number of vet friends. Urn:lcp:reasonstobehappy0000kitt:epub:73abf171-5b92-4f42-99bd-468c15f4c51c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier reasonstobehappy0000kitt Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2v50dp0r Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781402260209ġ402260202 Lccn 2011020276 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9523 Ocr_module_version 0.0.6 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19872 Page_number_confidence 96.23 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201119133956 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 522 Scandate 20201117080049 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781402260209 Tts_version 4.My sister is a vet. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:45:58 Boxid IA1999318 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Reasons to be happy by katrina kittle