The Dogs of Detroit

I won this a good while ago in a Goodreads raffle.

The author is quite talented in exploring grief, violence, abuse and toxic masculinity.

Warning: Every single story, except maybe one, has animal death, or animal torture, or detailed descriptions of butchering. I used to work at an animal shelter in Detroit, complete with a cruelty department, so the story about shooting wild dogs in Detroit was kinda darkly absurd for me.

Many of the stories contain people beating on each other for sport, or to get out their rage.

There are no happy endings.

I don't feel, as much as I admire the author's talent, that I would read another book by him.Relentless depictions of animals being shot, set on fire, tortured, and hopeless, abused, and abusing humans, are not a good cocktail for me.