Lee Branch Book Club: The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg

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Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.

LOCATION: East 59 Lee Branch

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Hoover, AL 35242