Christina Bach, MSW, LSW, director of Clinical Social Work and Pet Bereavement Services at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, is featured in the new book One Nation Under Dog, by Michael Shaffer, published by Henry Holt and Company. Shaffer writes compassionately and often humorously about America's obsession with its pets, and how the $43-billion pet industry reflects Americans' ideas of consumerism, family, politics and domesticity. Chapter 13, "The American Way of Pet Death," discusses the intense grief people often experience when their pets die and writes at length about Ms. Bach's pet-bereavement group at the Ryan Veterinary Hospital. For more information, visit Michael Shaffer's Web site at michaelschaffer.net/.