A review by kmbezner
The Rough Patch by Brian Lies

5.0

Evan and his dog do everything together, and their favorite activity is tending Evan’s award-winning garden. But when his dog dies, Evan slides into desperate hopelessness and spends his time tending the weeds and thorns that have overrun his once beautiful and bountiful garden. But hope sneaks in in the form of a pumpkin vine, and Evan discovers that it may not be too late to start again.

A beautiful, heartbreaking tale of processing grief and moving forward, and the first book since Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows to move me to tears (sensing a theme here?)