Pigs in Heaven

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Narrated performance by C.J. Critt.

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Pigs in Heaven submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 30, 2013, 9:14am The sequel to "The Bean Trees" (which one really should read first), "Pigs in Heaven" continues the story of Taylor and her adopted daughter Turtle. After Turtle notices a boy who fell into a pit and Taylor notifies the authorities to rescue him, the two become famous. That is when an official with the Cherokee Nation's government notices that Turtle was not legally adopted. This points to the larger issue of Native American children being taken forcibly from their families and adopted by non-Native American families.

The novel explores issues of mother-daughter relationships, race, Native American rights and culture, and child abuse (a relative put Turtle in Taylor's car in order to get her out of a sexually abusive home). As I have seen few other novels that truly tackle these issues, I recommend it to all readers.

"Pigs in Heaven" is author Barbara Kingsolver's first book to appear on the "New York Times" best seller list and won the 1993 "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Fiction.

Sequel submitted by redwood on August 2, 2019, 9:21pm Kingsolver essentially writing an apology for her uninformed ideas on Native American adoption in The Bean Trees--which is also a superior novel.