And the Dog Barks On... Still...Still standing... Eric's come through hell to stand here, on his own two feet, but who's to say he's got a steady footing? Crack... and the ground might split in two and swallow him up...Crack...It's a time of division, modern America is at war with itself, Eric's past is slipping ever-further away, old friends are Gone; or fading out of view as illness, Death, and mere time, threaten ~ And there's Eric standing totteringly upright trying to keep it together, his family, his home, his French bulldog, Freud... as this time of division, upheaval, and tragedy, threatens to tear them away.So do you fall apart in times like these, or stick together? In modern America, in a time of division and, for some, despair, is it time to give up, or to press forward?Onwards?onwards...In the last book of the Barking Dog series, "the 21st Century Adult Fairy Tale" feels less "Fairy Tale" than ever before... And (yet) the Dog Barks On... Still..."