RaveThe Houston ChronicleThe reader cannot help but reference a lineage of good-versus-evil brothers, a genealogy linking Steinbeck to Shakespeare to Abel and Cain. When Gar dies inexplicably, Edgar and Trudy carry on their work as best they can, though they are nearly paralyzed with grief … You do not have to be a ‘dog person’ to appreciate Wroblew ski's portraiture of each and every dog — these creatures who are bred to make choices, to live as cognizant individuals with more dignity than can be ascribed to many humans … With The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Wroblewski achieves the iconic dream of so many writers, that of bursting forth (after, of course, years of brutal and anonymous work weaving straw into gold) with what can deservedly be called a great American novel.
