Men and Dogs - Katie Crouch (Audiobook)

Synopsis:
In April of 1985, Buzz Legare went fishing. The next day all that was found was his boat and his waiting, faithful dog.
Twenty years later, his daughter Hannah still finds hope in believing, alone among her family, that he's still alive somewhere. She has a smart husband, a thriving business, a beautiful home in San Francisco-and a huge hole in her troubled heart. True to her trademark talent for self-sabotage, she finds herself one starry night climbing up the fire escape in a desperate (and drunken) attempt to win back her own husband--and failing disastrously.
Slightly worse for the wear, Hannah returns to Charleston to salve her wounds. There, old loves, unrepented crimes, and family legends are stirred up from the dust. Hannah's brother Palmer, the stoic with a secret of his own, cannot dissuade her from a manic search to uncover clues to the past, and they will both face shocking discoveries that lead them to reconcile their very different notions of loyalty and blind faith.
As she did so memorably in her bestselling debut, Girls in Trucks, Katie Crouch has created another great voice--spiky, tender, and hilarious--in the screwball heroine Hannah Legare. Much like Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding, Hannah follows the misguided impulses of a heart that's in the right place.


©2010


My Opinion:
Since it was audiobook, first I would like to say, the narrator speaks clearly and has a calm tone. Makes it very easy and enjoyable to listen to.
I love the candor in the story, even though there is extreme foul language at times.
Hannah, the main character really appealed to me too. She seems a bad sort at times, yet she's just hurt and misunderstood. I connect in more ways than one to Hannah. She's smart, yet angry. Funny, yet rude. So many traits in one woman and I admire and respect them all.
I enjoyed the middle of the book best, where Hannah becomes reminiscent and you learn more about her character and why she is the way she is. I preferred when the story stuck to Hannah, since I wasn't impressed with Palmer, her hoity-toity brother.
This book is fabulously written, where all the emotions displayed in the book were easily recognized on the audiobook.
This is a book, I'd like to get a hard copy of and read it again. When actual words are in front of me, versus the listening, I tend to read in a movie-like state, playing the scenes out in my mind. I do think the audiobook can take some of that away.
On my recommendation list for sure.
(4/5)


~I received a copy from Hachette Book Group. I was not compensated for my opinion.~