Here’s the Thing: What we can learn from labs, the furry kind not medical

I’m reading Tomorrow, a novel by Damien Dibben (2018) with multiple settings spanning 200 years and many locations; it focuses on Venice in 1815 as a 200-year-old dog searches for his master. That’s 200 in human years, a fantastical element of the book. The fact the dog is the narrator is another fantastical element. I’m…