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Maybe that’s my personal fear, but Joyce Carol Oates taps straight into it with the gripping, disgusting and darkly comic opening to her latest novel, Fox.

Carol Reith was arrested for animal cruelty after 52 dogs were rescued from a house on the 200 block of Sky Hill Road, Wauconda police said.