Synopsis
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.
About Barbara Kingsolver
See more books from this AuthorWhen the man is rescued, Turtle becomes a celebrity--which brings self-confidence but also the attention of Cherokee Nation authorities in Heaven, Oklahoma- -especially that of Indian-activist lawyer Annawake Fourkiller, who recognizes Turtle as a missing Cherokee child called Lacey Stillwater;
| Read Full Review of Pigs in HeavenTaylor Greer and her adopted Cherokee daughter Turtle, first met in The Bean Trees , will captivate readers anew in Kingsolver's assured and eloquent sequel, which mixes wit, wisdom and the expert skills of a born raconteur into a powerfully affecting narrative.
| Read Full Review of Pigs in HeavenPIGS IN HEAVEN Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $22) Great news for readers (I'm one) who present copies of Barbara Kingsolver's incandescent novels The Bean Trees and Animal Dreams to friends like keys to the kingdom of independent-women's heaven: Taylor Greer, the resourceful, big-spirited he...
Jul 16 1993 | Read Full Review of Pigs in Heavennobody, save Alice's husband (Taylor's father), gets a raw deal, and since we never meet him except through Alice's thoughts - 'You can't rehabilitate a man who collects light bulbs' - he can be excused his lack of grace notes.
| Read Full Review of Pigs in HeavenThe likably flawed characters are single mother Taylor: her adopted daughter, Turtle, 6;
Jun 28 1993 | Read Full Review of Pigs in HeavenShe goes on the warpath when she hears that Taylor didn't get permission from the Cherokee Nation to adopt Turtle.
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