Are you ready for our upcoming event with Rick Bragg? The beloved author and storyteller will be at Page & Palette on Tuesday, September 28 at 6 PM to discuss his new book, THE SPECKLED BEAUTY. Limited seating is still available in the Book Cellar! A book purchase is required to secure a ticket to the event. All books will be pre-signed, but personalizations must be requested in advance by September 24. To purchase your ticket, call 251-928-5295 or stop by P&P! #pagepalette #riggbragg #thespeckledbeauty

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, the warm-hearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.

Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions.

Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.