Title Walking the dog : a novel / Elizabeth Swados ; with an afterword by Gloria Steinem.

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New York : Feminist Press, 2016.

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Summary	Former child prodigy and rich-girl kleptomaniac, Ester--renamed into the gentile Carleen for her own protection--is incarcerated after a botched heist. For two decades, time is the enemy. Her twenties and thirties crawl by in stifling isolation. When finally let loose onto the streets of New York, she finds a job wrestling spoiled canines as a dog walker in Manhattan's most elite neighborhoods, relating better with their brutish instincts than with their human owners. Determined to also prove herself a real person, Carleen tries to reconnect with her estranged and ferociously Orthodox daughter. Amid the strained brunch dates, unsent letters, and the continuing trauma of prison, Carleen begins a slow and halting process of self-discovery. Strikingly funny and self aware, this belated coming-of-age novel asks the question: How do you restart after crashing your first chance at life?
Subject	Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
	Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
	Parent and adult child -- Fiction.
	Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
	FICTION / Coming of Age.
	FICTION / Contemporary Women.
	PETS / Dogs / General.
	Ex-convicts. (OCoLC)fst00917418
	Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
	Parent and adult child. (OCoLC)fst01053304
	Self-realization in women. (OCoLC)fst01111914
Genre/Form	Bildungsromans.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form:	Print version: Swados, Elizabeth. Walking the dog. New York : Feminist Press, 2016 9781558619210 (DLC) 2015048949 (OCoLC)923552941
ISBN	9781558619227 (electronic bk.)
	1558619224 (electronic bk.)

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