Life Outside the Center of the Universe: the author weaves in and out of real-life and fiction with tales of pets, family, and others. Print and audio available everywhere books are sold online.

USA Best Book Award Winner in Narrative Nonfiction

Who says a whacked sense of humor and animal stories don't mix?

Do you rank Where The Red Fern Grows along with Wuthering Heights amongst your favorite books of all time? All Creatures Great and Small with Pet Sematary? If so, chances are you get it: there's something magical about giving literary immortality and a sometimes irreverent voice to the nonhumans that capture our collective imagination. If these are the stories that glue you to the page, then Puppalicious and Beyond: Life Outside The Center Of The Universe is the book for you. Set in the Caribbean and Texas, it tells both the true and fictionalized versions of the magnificent and interrelated creatures "natural and supernatural - that passed through the author's life, bringing her delight, fright, and every emotion in between.

*** Readers who love to laugh love Puppalicious.

"It made me laugh out loud."

"Hilarious and addicting."

"Funny and heartwarming."

"Wonderful bouquet of delightful stories."

"Must read for an animal lover."

*** See why Hutchins is called an "up-and-coming powerhouse writer" and "the Erma Bombeck of her generation."