Marion Winik, The Minnesota Star Tribune

“A Dog in Georgia” is Lauren Grodstein’s sixth novel under her own name, following the breakout success of “We Must Not Think of Ourselves,” a World War II novel set in Warsaw. The current narrative is also set in Eastern Europe — it’s that Georgia — but the history that affects the plot is much more recent: 2023’s wave of large-scale protests against the government’s increasing authoritarianism.

The premise of the novel — the means for transporting us to Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi — is an original one. As the title says, there’s a dog in Georgia, a wonderful, fluffy white dog who worked as a crossing guard at an elementary school, and this dog is lost, or perhaps kidnapped. Amy Webb of New York City has been following the situation on YouTube,

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