The Dog of the North - McKenzie Achieves Escape Velocity

Interview with the author of 2023’s best comic road trip

Penny Rush is a woman on a mission— if only she could get herself in gear. Her marriage is kaput, her grandmother in Santa Barbara has gone crackers, and her own parents have disappeared in the Australian outback, with all the leads gone cold.

Also, she’s broke.

So opens Dog of the North, Elizabeth McKenzie’s third novel: a road trip, a shaggy Pomeranian…