![]() ![]() Then, out of canine loyalty, she defends her owner. She describes the other dogs at the park shit-talking Myles, making fun of the nickname-Jethro-that Rosie has given her. She complains about being bred (“raped,” really) and later spayed. ![]() Rosie narrates a good deal of the book herself, pushing Myles aside to offer her own version of the story, and in her own voice. Incorporating a variety of styles-poems, lectures, even a chapter in the form of a talk show in which Rosie is interviewed by a puppet-the memoir approaches a number of ideas (about death, god, gender, humanity) from several increasingly layered perspectives. A reader might ask: Is this letter real, a neighbor’s prank, a figment of Myles’s fertile imagination? But these are the kinds of distinctions that Myles’s shape-shifting narrative obliterates almost immediately. Leaving the apartment for the dog run, Myles finds a letter from a “dog lawyer,” who is seeking to file a lawsuit against Myles for crimes committed against Rosie. ![]() In the first chapter of Eileen Myles’s Afterglow (a dog memoir), we learn that the author’s pit bull Rosie, whom Myles chose in 1990 from a street litter and cared for until her death sixteen years later, was not always pleased with her owner. ![]()
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