DOG WARS

About the Book

Aw, a new puppy! How sweet! How precious and adorable! How wrong! Little Ozzy turns out to be the monster that destroys a family's peace and harmony. Or does he? The whole situation is so complex, and the run-up to the Dog War so fraught with complications, that it is completely unreasonable to conclude that it began with any one event – not even the arrival of Ozzy on that fateful day in April. It makes no sense to see the Dog War as an isolated episode, and once it really exploded, it stirred up a lot of old feelings and memories, recollections and resentments that perhaps would have been better forgotten. The Dog War was just a scrimmage in a much larger and longer running series of conflicts. And while the history of the Dog Wars is a story of conflict, it is also a story of victory. Although it is a story of struggle, it is a story of triumph too.

About the Author

Tia Greenfield was born in Boulder, Colorado, and spent her childhood there. When she was in her early teens, her family moved to Southern Oregon. After graduation from high school, she moved to San Francisco, California, and attended City College of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley, where she received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English Language and Literature. She has three grown children: Leef, Lars, and Lyca. Currently, she resides in the Chicago area with her husband, Dennis, and teaches English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. DOG WARS is her third novel, following POW-WOW and BARTER FAIR.