Sit! Stay! Speak! : William Morrow Paperbacks : 9780062379269 : 0062379267 : 08 Sep 2015 : If you love dogs you'll love this book, which echoes the novels of Mary Alice Monroe, Jill Shalvis, and Kristin Higgins.  It's a charming debut novel telling the unforgettable story of how a rescue dog helps a struggling young outsider make peace with the past. Addie Andrews is living a life interrupted.  Tragedy sent her fleeing from Chicago to the shelter of an unexpected inheritance?her beloved aunt's somewhat dilapidated home in Eunice, Arkansas, population very tiny.  There she reconnects with some of her most cherished childhood memories.  If only they didn't make her feel so much! People say nothing happens in small towns, but Addie quickly learns better. She's got an elderly next door neighbor who perplexingly dances outside in his underwear, a house needing more work than she has money, a best friend whose son uncannily predicts the weather, and a local drug dealer holding a massive gr