Decoding Dot Grey
(By Nicola Davison)
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not especially fond of their company. It’s 1997, and she’s
just left home in favour of a dank, cold basement, where she
lives with several small animals, including a chorus of crickets, a
family of sowbugs (they came with the apartment), a hairless rat,
and an injured crow.
Her job at the animal shelter is her refuge—so long as she can
avoid her father’s phone calls. He’s trying to get Dot to visit her
mother, but Dot knows there’s no point. No one ever understood
her like her mum, who helped Dot channel her vibrating fingers
into Morse code, their own private language. But her bright,
artistic mother was terribly injured a year ago and Dot can’t
reach her, even with her tapping fingers. Left with only a father
who refuses to face the truth, she focuses on saving the little lives
at the shelter.
When Joe starts working there, everyone thinks he has a
crush on Dot. Dot thinks he’s just awkward and kind. He shows
his good heart when they rescue an entire litter of puppies
together, and Dot finds herself warming up to him. But Joe waits
too long to tell her his deepest secret, and soon she is forced to
deal with two losses. In the end, Dot’s weird way of looking at
the world is the one thing that will, against the odds, help her
connect with it.
With clever wordplay and the most motley of crews—human
and otherwise—Decoding Dot Grey is a tender and delightful novel
from the award-winning author of In the Wake.”
