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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Australian writer Dion Leonard, and his canine Gobi, held a meet-and-greet Thursday nighttime to beforehand their publication astatine the Woodward Park Library successful northeast Fresno.
The book, called Finding Gobi, tells Leonard's existent communicative of uncovering the stray canine portion participating successful an ultramarathon successful the Gobi Desert of China.
The 2 became moving companions successful pugnacious conditions implicit 155 miles, and arsenic a result, formed a unsocial and unbreakable bond.
"There's truthful overmuch bittersweet and atrocious quality successful the satellite that I deliberation we each benignant of tin link with the communicative due to the fact that it's specified a loving communicative and puts a grin connected people's faces," Leonard said.
There are 2 much opportunities to conscionable Gobi and Leonard, with the archetypal being Saturday, October 18th at the Betty Rodriguez Library adjacent Cedar & Shields Avenues successful Fresno from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
The 2nd is from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. astatine the Kingsburg Library astatine Draper and Marion Streets connected Wednesday, October 22nd.
The Fresno County Library strategy advises those funny that pre-registration is encouraged, arsenic abstraction is limited.
The author's sojourn was portion of the Fresno County Reads program.
Finding Gobi books are disposable for Adults, Young adults, and Children.
