Amy Webb, a mid-40s New Yorker, is accosted by a self-proclaimed “pet psychic” while walking her rescued German Shepherd one day. The stranger warns her that her dog is miserable. Amy wonders if the odd woman got her signal mixed up and mistook the dog for Amy’s heart.
So begins “A Dog in Georgia,” the new novel by Lauren Grodstein, author of the best-selling books “The Explanation for Everything” and “A Friend of the Family.”