Buddy, Brian McGrory
Buddy, Brian McGrory
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Buddy
How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man

Author: Brian McGrory

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/06/2012

Synopsis

Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian. Though Brian's only responsibility used to be his adored Harry, Pam came with accessories that could not have been more exotic to the city-loving bachelor: a home in suburbia, two young daughters, two dogs, two cats, two rabbits, and a portly, snow white, red-crowned-and-wattled step-rooster named Buddy. While Buddy loves the women of the house, he takes Brian's presence as an affront, doing everything he can to drive out his rival. Initially resistant to elements of his new life and to the loud, aggressive rooster (who stares menacingly, pecks threateningly, and is constantly poised to attack), Brian eventually sees that Buddy shares the kind of extraordinary relationship with Pam and her two girls that he wants for himself. The rooster is what Brian needs to be—strong and content, devoted to what he has rather than what might be missing. As he learns how to live by living with animals, Buddy, Brian's nemesis, becomes Brian's inspiration, in this inherently human story of love, acceptance, and change.

In the tradition of bestsellers like Marley and Me, Dewey, and The Tender Bar comes a heartwarming and wise tale of finding love in life's second chapter—and how it means all the more when you have to fight for it.

About Brian McGrory

Brian McGrory is a longtime newspaper reporter, editor, and columnist. Born and raised in and around Boston, he is a graduate of Bates College in Maine. He has worked for the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, the New Haven Register in Connecticut, and has written for and edited the Boston Globe since 1989. He has a twice weekly column that appears on the front of the metro section, for which he has won the Scripps Howard journalism award. He also the author of four novels: Strangled, Dead Line, The Nominee, and The Incumbent. Brian lives in Massachusetts with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on June 16, 2021

A Rooster of a Good Time. I really enjoyed this crazy story. It starts out as a touching, even romantic story about his first child who passes and breaks his heart. Then life changes and suddenly he is “stuck with “a rooster called Buddy. Even though the book is funny and an apparently typical animal......more

Goodreads review by Beth on October 18, 2012

Maybe I'm a bit prejudiced, having grown up on James Herriot, but Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man was a let down. I went into this book with high hopes for humor and heartwarming stories. What I got was a hodge-podge of information, not necessarily in chronological order, that was only sli......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on February 08, 2023

McGrory has been happily single for many, many years. Well, maybe not so happily. He wishes often that he had a family. A wife. Kids. Wishes for a family a lot. Then he meets a vet and, before he knows it, he has a family. Fabulous fiancée. A real family. With kids who worship at your feet one minut......more

Goodreads review by Amy on August 07, 2012

I did have a very hard time believing that a vet wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a hen and a rooster without a blood test. Especially beings the rooster in question was a White Plymouth Rock.......more

Goodreads review by Deidre on November 01, 2012

By now we are well-accustomed to charming animal-centered memoirs featuring a troublesome pup or a winsome feline. The rooster, however, is an unlikely candidate for this sort of pet as life-lesson instructor story. But with the rise in urban farming perhaps more roosters will be making their way in......more

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