A Book Review . . . The Dog, The Angel, And The Blind Man
By PEGGY MOEN Tobit’s Dog by Michael Nicholas Richard. Ignatius Press (San Francisco: 2014); $19.95; 185 pages. Order at www.ignatius.com, or by calling 1-800-651-1531. END BOLD INSERT “What about the dog?” my pastor once asked in a homily about the Book of Tobit. The dog is mentioned a couple of times in Tobit, but without much elaboration. See Tobit 6:1: “The boy left with the angel, and the dog followed behind”; and 11:4: “They went on together…and the dog followed them.” In Tobit’s Dog, novelist Michael Nicholas Richard sets his story the 1930s South and gives a wider role to the dog, Okra, describing his eyes in a way that tie him to his owner, Tobit, and to the Archangel…Continue Reading