Below is an announcement from Wilmington Community Television’s “Book Stew:”
Long-time US State Department employee and author Tom Navratil served in many locales during his long tenure, including Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, and Japan. He also encountered many overly ambitious colleagues and more than a few absurd situations.
Dog’s Breakfast, his novel that reads like a mashup of MASH itself and the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, opens with the Vodanian ambassador’s dog suffering from stomach issues. This seemingly minor incident ripens into a border war, manipulated by the second-in-command at the Embassy, Deputy Chief of Mission Andy Pulano. Feeling stuck in a mid-European backwater and impatient for promotion, Andy plots to embarrass his boss and to thwart the investigation by rookie Tara Zidani, who is charged with discovering the cause of the dog’s possible poisoning: who did it and why?
Andy’s secretive manipulations cause rising tensions between Vodania and neighboring Pazaria in this clever comic novel that mocks skirmishes both in and outside the embassy grounds. In the December episode, the author and I share our favorite passages from the book.
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Eileen MacDougall is the host/producer of 140+ episodes of Book Stew, a web series and podcast originating in 2013, featuring every variety of authors, illustrators, poets, and playwrights, plus a cat that survived a tornado and lived to write about it!
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