When a Dalmatian puppy shows up in her grandmother's house, Paige is overjoyed! Her grandmother's spooky house doesn't seem so scary anymore, especially with fur-raising magical fun on the horizon!

Nine-year-old Paige's worries about her mother's hospitalization and the new brother who is on the way, not having a birthday party, and needing to stay at her step-grandmother's spooky country house, fade when a magical puppy named Storm arrives.

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

Nine-year-old Paige's worries about her mother's hospitalization and the new brother who is on the way, not having a birthday party, and needing to stay at her step-grandmother's spooky country house, fade when a magical puppy named Storm arrives.