2017 Reading Challenge discussion

What a delight! Author Annick Smith (also known for her filmmaking) travels from Montana to Chicago with her chocolate lab Bruno, to take her 97 year old mother for a week at their vacation home on Lake Michigan.

The chocolate lab was what drew me to this book, but Smith didn't write a whole lot about him. However, she wrote about her immigrant family (Hungarian Jews), and a great deal about her life in Montana and her relationships with family. As she travels to and from Chicago, she writes about PLACE - the natural history, the human history, and the memories these things evoke.

I enjoy books with strong places, and especially the west. So many locations in her book were familiar to me in some way.

Great book - perfect for the memoir category too.