Neil H. Abramson, 47, is a partner at a big-time New York law firm, Proskauer Rose, who represents a wide variety of employers in collective bargaining and labor and employment related litigation. But he also takes on animal rights and animal welfare issues on a pro bono basis. He has been inspired by his wife, Amy Rodriquez Abramson, who is a veterinarian. They and their 7- and 9-year-old daughters share a home in Westchester County with many non-humans, large and small.
Flaggy and Neal H. Abramson
Courtesy of Neal Abramson
Now Mr. Abramson has distilled many of his insights about the relationship between humans and animals in a first novel, “Unsaid” (Center Street/Hatchette Book Group). Mr. Abramson began writing the novel after his own wife faced a health crisis several years ago. It is narrated by Helena Colden, a veterinarian who has died of breast cancer but cannot move on. Helena is terrified of meeting the souls of animals she has euthanized and anguished by the shattering effect of her passing on her husband David, a driven litigator with few close ties to other people or to the bewildered animals left in his care. The book is a sometimes funny and often moving parable on communication and things left unsaid, grief and, perhaps most prominently, the healing quality of the animal-human bond.
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