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Title: Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
Author: GEORGES NICOLE J
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 18/07/2017
Imprint: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate
with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet
When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mixa
troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen
years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression, relationships gone awry,
and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene,
Beija was there, wearing her ”Dont Pet Me” bandana.
Georges’s gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic, codependent relationship and
probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thinga living thing that
occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets, dog whisperers, and even a pet psychic for
help, but it is the moments of accommodation, adaption, and compassion that sustain them.
Nicole never successfully taught Beija ”sit”, but in the end, Beija taught Nicole how to stay.
AUTHOR:
Nicole J. Georges is an e-zine publisher, illustrator, and pet-portrait artist who teaches
self-publishing and autobiographical-comic workshops. She has contributed illustrations to a
number of publications, including Bitch and Herbivore. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
b/w drawings throughout
ISBN: 9780544577831