Mark Bojanowski's The Dog Fighter --

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0060595604

A spectacular and riveting novel.

Unfortunately many of my classmates in writing class thought that it promoted cruelty to animals.

I don't think so.

It's a story, for goodness sake. All it needs to be is a good story.

Kyi May Kaung.