The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein — book cover
Contemporary Hopeful & Uplifting Balanced

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein

3.9 via Goodreads

A Formula One driver's life -- his love story, his losses, his legal battles -- told by his dog, who believes he will be reincarnated as a human and is paying close attention.

Mood Hopeful & Uplifting
Pacing Balanced
Complexity Light & Accessible
Pages 336
Reading Time ~11–17 hrs

About This Book

Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.

Who This Is For

Best for readers who want to finish a book feeling better about the world than when they started. The prose is accessible: you can read this quickly and it never asks too much of you. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. If you're drawn to darker, more complex territory, this may feel slight.

Best Read When

Best read when you're in the mood for something warm and uplifting, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.

What It Explores

The Art of Racing in the Rain explores love in its most complicated forms, family in all its complexity — inherited and chosen, loss and what remains after it, and identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be.

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