Eva Silverfine

Like other reviewers, the title caught my attention. It took me a wee while to get into this slower paced story about Lizzy and her neighbours, but it didn’t take long to be ensnared in their everyday lives dealing with a change in their neighbourhood. I like how the author’s main characters included teenagers and children in the narrative. A real cross section of a neighbourhood. I did find some of the descriptive prose a bit lengthy at times but enjoyed the relationships of the main characters.… (mere)

I was first drawn to Eva Silverfine’s “How to Bury A Dog” by the name alone. I was curious and wondered to myself what type of story could be made from an instructional-like title on burying a dog. I thought of a story on dog rescues, on a family novel, and then on a book about a dog lover who needed to find their way.

Silverfine’s novel encompasses all of this, more or less, but most importantly tackles the greater evil of when the land and earth around us is threatened. “How to Bury A Dog” is a story of fighting for the right to protect your home, to protect the land we all live on, and the fight to not get lost within ourselves. Eva Silverfine has written a beautiful novel full of authentic characters and very real situations that we are all facing — or going to face.

Thank you for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.… (mere)