Clinch Knot

The Dog is in Livingston, Montana, daydreaming about fishing the Stone and, as usual, subsisting on Swisher Sweets, vodka-Tang, and the hope that pretending to forget will be enough.

He''s forged a few tenuous friendships, and now finds himself watching from the bank as troubled local girl Jesse Ringer leads D''Ontario Sneed into the swift current of young love. It''s sweet, really . . . but some o...