Bring Out the Dog

Will Mackin provides the narration for his debut audiobook, a quietly devastating series of stories arising from his military deployment. The audiobook creates a nonlinear, disorienting experience reflecting the essence of life in the field. The world he creates is real and often brutal, but his themes are universal: kinship, the struggle of facing grief, and human fragility. In one story, in which the narrator is in desperate need of a miracle, a moment of spiritual realism is captured without sliding into sentimentality. Mackin's performance is unadorned, direct, and honest. S.P.C. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine