Pigs in Heaven
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Barbara Kingsolver
Picking up where her modern classic The Bean Trees left off, Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling Pigs in Heaven continues the tale of Turtle and Taylor Greer, a Native American girl and her adoptive mother who have settled in Tucson, Arizona, as they both try to overcome their difficult pasts.Taking place three years after The Bean Trees, Taylor is now dating a musician named Jax and has officially adopted Turtle. But when a lawyer for the Cherokee Nation begins to investigate the adoption—their new life together begins to crumble.Depicting the clash between fierce family love and tribal law, poverty and means, abandonment and belonging, Pigs in Heaven is a morally wrenching, gently humorous work of fiction that speaks equally to the head and the heart.This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from Barbara Kingsolver, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.
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Author
Barbara Kingsolver
Pages
368
Publisher
Harper Collins
Published Date
2009-03-17
ISBN
0061842214 9780061842214
Ratings
Google: 3.5
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"This was my first Kingsolver novel. I was instantly intrigued by her description of Kentucky, so detailed and specific that I knew it could have only been written by a native, I immediately looked up her Wikipedia page to discover that she was indeed from Eastern KY! This is an excellent novel, fast read, intriguing and realistic characters, funny at times, deep at others. I felt that the ending was a little disappointing (too unrealistic how everything falls "Happily Ever After" into place). Having just moved to Oklahoma, it also gave me a lot of insight into the history and culture of the Native Americans, which I am woefully ignorant of. It is sad that Americans do not even know about this tragic and vibrant part of their own history!"
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Rebekah Travis
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