CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner narrates her engaging story of love, loss, and pet ownership set against the backdrop of New York City—with its own heartbreaking post-9/11 narrative. Teichner’s down-to-earth voice sounds intimate as she invites listeners to consider how our lives are transformed by those we meet, including beloved pets who connect with us and with each other. (Listeners who know and love bull terriers may be especially touched by Harry and Minnie’s canine affection.) Teichner’s assured voice is pitch-perfect and has just-right pacing. But as she recounts opening her life to rehome an elderly pet and gains a friend, it’s the personal nature of the story that ensures that listeners feel connected—and affected—whether or not they’re dog people. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
Narrated by Martha Teichner
Martha TeichnerUnabridged — 8 hours, 37 minutes
When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship
Narrated by Martha Teichner
Martha TeichnerUnabridged — 8 hours, 37 minutes
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A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner.
There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that kind of fairy tale, with the vibrant, romantic New York City backdrop of its namesake, the movie When Harry Met Sally, and the bittersweet wisdom of Tuesdays with Morrie.
There's a special camaraderie among early-morning dog walkers. Gathering at dog runs in the park, or strolling through the farmer's market at Union Square before the bustling crowd appears, fellow pet owners become familiar-as do the personalities of their beloved animals. In this special space and time, a chance encounter with an old acquaintance changed Martha Teichner's world. As fate would have it, her friend knew someone who was dying of cancer, from exposure to toxins after 9/11, and desperate to find a home for her dog, Harry. He was a Bull Terrier-the same breed as Martha's dear Minnie. Would Martha consider giving Harry a safe, loving new home?
In short order, boy dog meets girl dog, the fairy tale part of this story. But there is so much more to this book. After Martha agrees to meet Harry and his owner Carol, what begins as a transaction involving a dog becomes a deep and meaningful friendship between two women with complicated lives and a love of Bull Terriers in common. Through the heartbreak and grief of Carol's illness, the bond that develops changed Martha's life, Carol's life, Minnie's life, Harry's life. As it changed Carol's death as well.
In this rich and touching narrative, Martha considers the ways our stories are shaped by the people we meet, and the profound love we can find by opening our hearts to unexpected encounters.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books
Editorial Reviews
Teichner’s main themes are sure to warm readers in this cold coronavirus winter: the steadfast devotion between dogs and their owners, and the essential role friendship plays in sustaining both humans and their beloved pets … Teichner has learned that we all have the capacity to create and build new friendships and attachments at whatever age or stage of life. That such rewards are possible is the inspirational lesson for all the characters in — and readers of — this touching saga.”
—The Washington Post
"When Harry Met Minnie made me cry and made me dance with joy. It’s an exquisite tale about heartbreak and healing, critters and humans, and the little miracles life hands us when we need them the most."
—Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of THE GLASS CASTLE and HALF BROKE HORSES
"When Harry Met Minnie is a tour-de-force of storytelling. Martha Teichner not only charts the course of two remarkable friendships, between two people and two dogs, she invites us to consider our own relationships. The stars that had to align to put someone special in our life. This is a love story, masterful, warm and funny, heartfelt and heartbreaking. I absolutely loved this book."
—Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of All the Devils Are Here
“When Harry Met Minnie is a story of laughter and tears, of friendship and dogs. It shows us the loyalty and resilience of Bull Terriers—and of two women who love them. A book of generosity and hope for an era badly in need of both.”
—Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of GOOD BOY: My Life in Seven Dogs
“When Harry Met Minnie belongs on the shelf next to Travels with Charley and Marley and Me. But the unforgettable dogs we meet in these pages don’t just help the people in their lives, they save each other. Martha Teichner has written an extraordinary story filled with love and humor about the transformative power of friendship, among dogs and people, in the thick of life and at its end. I fell in love with Harry, Minnie, their humans, and this marvel of a book."
—Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living
"The sweet — if wrenching — memoir is an ode to our dearest four-legged friends, and the people they lead us to."
—The Washington Post, "What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020"
CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner narrates her engaging story of love, loss, and pet ownership set against the backdrop of New York City—with its own heartbreaking post-9/11 narrative. Teichner’s down-to-earth voice sounds intimate as she invites listeners to consider how our lives are transformed by those we meet, including beloved pets who connect with us and with each other. (Listeners who know and love bull terriers may be especially touched by Harry and Minnie’s canine affection.) Teichner’s assured voice is pitch-perfect and has just-right pacing. But as she recounts opening her life to rehome an elderly pet and gains a friend, it’s the personal nature of the story that ensures that listeners feel connected—and affected—whether or not they’re dog people. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
2020-11-11
A poignant memoir recounts how two dog lovers bonded over their shared affection for an aging bull terrier.
In July 2016, longtime CBS News and CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Teichner was shopping at a farmers market in her Manhattan neighborhood, accompanied by her “sleek glamor-puss” rescue bull terrier Minnie, when she met an old dog-walking acquaintance with an unusual request. His friend Carol, who lived alone aside from her 11-year-old bull terrier, Harry, was dying of liver cancer and desperate to find a new home for Harry. The author, whose dog Goose had died six months earlier, leaving Minnie and her owner bereft, was intrigued and agreed to meet with Carol. Circling each other, both suspicious, they worked into a deep friendship during the little time that Carol had left, all the while acting like “two overly protective mothers trying to arrange a marriage.” With humor and deep affection, Teichner recounts the play dates, sleepovers, doggie-cam observations, trips to a church “Blessing of the Animals,” where the two animals showed “zero desire to be blessed,” and all the other lead-ups to the eventual transfer. Emails between the two women add wry wit to the tale, which is definitely a New York story, with all the rich details of life on the sidewalks and streets, among dogs and dog owners. It's also a story of relatively privileged lives, despite Carol’s illness. Readers may be shocked by the thousands of dollars the two women routinely spent on their dogs or by the fact that Teichner has had live-in au pairs for her series of dogs for the past 30 years. But that privilege doesn't preclude loss, and the most touching moments of the memoir show Teichner delicately but firmly confronting the deaths of Carol and, later, Harry.
A heartwarming and heartbreaking story of friendship and grief.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940177172200 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Macmillan Audio |
| Publication date: | 02/02/2021 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Sales rank: | 948,807 |
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