Alexandra Horowitz will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29 to discus her newest book, released earlier this month, “Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond.”

The event is free and open to the public.

As Horowitz considers the current culture of dogdom, she reveals the odd, surprising and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their individuality, but breed them for sameness. Despite our deep emotional relationships with dogs, legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. Even the way we speak to our dogs is at once perplexing and delightful.

The Oprah Magazine said it was, “an incredible journey into the olfactory world of man’s best friend.” And the New York Times Book Review said it “causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude.”

Horowitz is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know,” and “On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation.”

She teaches at Barnard College, where she runs the Dog Cognition Lab, and lives with her family and two large, highly sniffy dogs in New York City.