TY - BOOK AU - McKenzie,Elizabeth TI - The dog of the north: a novel SN - 9780593300695 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Penguin Press KW - Automobile travel KW - Fiction KW - Life change events KW - Van life KW - California KW - Women KW - Family relationships KW - Road fiction KW - lcgft KW - Humorous fiction KW - Novels N2 - "From the National Book Award longlisted author of The Portable Veblen. Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what's possible when all else fails"-- ER -