About the Book
Among the many forms humanity takes are dog aficionados. Happiness is their common quest, but it’s not always as easy to get as a good scratch. This trail of tails brings together a group of Santa Fe women, led by the dog-obsessed Ms. Sioux Ashe, who hijack a community-college creative writing class, and a scruffy pack of men filming an independent sci-fi horror movie in Cow Springs, Arizona. The adventure begins after the mangiest member of the film crew, one-eyed Big Willie, undergoes a cataclysmic conversion that transforms him from a fleabitten sweat-hog into a charismatic healer on the canine circuit. When Big Willie’s gift brings him and his sidekick screenwriter, Gap, into the sphere of Sioux and her dog-loving dilettante companions, Gap takes up his quixotic pursuit of the writing instructor, Dena, who was his senior prom date twenty years earlier and remains his one great love.
About the Author
Lisa Gray Fisher has lived in Santa Fe since 1984, and prior to that in El Valle, near Peñasco, during the mid-1970s. She and her husband Rick also spent eight years in Boston, where Lisa worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin. After they returned to the Southwest with their two children, Kristina and Eliot, Lisa taught at Santa Fe Community College (though none of her classes met in a teepee) and then found her home teaching English at Santa Fe Preparatory School, where she served as Department Chair for twenty years. Fisher’s poetry has been published in a number of journals, including the Christian Science Monitor, Mediphors, and War Literature & the Arts. And yes, Lisa and Rick have been picking dog hairs off their clothes for forty years.
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Events
- June 28, 2011
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Full Body Wag at Collected Works BookstoreTime: 12:00 am
Location:
202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Description:Writer Lisa Gray Fisher reads from her new novel, Full Body Wag. Joining the author conversation will be writer and historian Jack Loeffler.
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- July 10, 2011
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Full Body Wag at Page OneTime: 8:00 pm
Location:
11018 Montgomery Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Description:Lisa Gray Fisher of Santa Fe reads from and discusses her debut novel, Full Body Wag, at Page One bookstore.
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- August 8, 2011
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Full Body Wag at Poor Richard'sTime: 12:00 am
Location:
324 N Tejon St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Description:A book signing by former Colorado Springs resident Lisa Gray Fisher, author of Full Body Wag.
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- February 7, 2014
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Hijacked – BenchwarmersTime: 2:30 am
Location:
Santa Fe Playhouse, East De Vargas Street, Santa Fe, NM
Description:Hijacked, a short play adapted from the first chapter of Full Body Wag, is presented as part of the Benchwarmers short play festival.
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