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Cindy Ojczyk

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in Chicago, IL USA

July 29

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Cindy Ojcyk is an award-winning writer, memorist, and lifelong pet foster whose work explores the emotional terrain of parenting, mental health, and the healing power of rescue animals. She uses storytelling to reveal the devotion we’ve shaped in pets as a mirror of the love and loyalty we long to give and receive.

Cindy lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota USA with her husband, a revolving cast of foster animals, and a few eccentric rescues who keep life interesting.

Her adult children, raised in a home full of fur, now tend to menageries of their own.

When Cindy is not writing or reading, she volunteers with animal and human welfare groups, tends to her little patch of native prairie, and walks in nature with whomever will accompany her.

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Mom Loves the Dogs More: A Memoir of Family Rescue

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I had never read this author's work until this book. I am now a fan. The depth of character and emotion truly pulled me in as did the surprising history behind the story. I left the last page with a need for more learning and a yearning for more of H ...more
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For me, a book knocks it out of the park when I have to look things up. I loved having, “I didn’t know that moments” while reading Fission. Bonus points for this historical fiction told from underrepresented voices.
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