About "Pigs in Heaven"
Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, leading to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a crisis of historical proportions that will envelop not only her and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touched their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past. With this wise, compelling novel, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, and Animal Dreams vividly renders a world of heartbreak and redeeming love as she defines and defies the boundaries of family, and illuminates the many separate truths aboutthe ties that bind us and tear us apart.
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18.06.2007 / Mohsine Bensaid / Granville, OH, USA
Pigs in Heaven: Individualism VS Collectivism
In Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver breaks the norms of classical or even contemporary novels by creating a complex story with no real hero or true villain. The talk can be over main characters but not one single, major persona that is in the very limelight. The extensive use of symbolism in this...
[> more]26.04.2007 / E. Mahon
She's Amazing.
I love all of Barbara Kingsolver's books, but this book and The Bean Trees are her best!
16.12.2006 / Joanna Mechlinski / CT, USA
One of the best books I've ever read
Taylor Greer never thought she'd be a mother. But, thanks to a bizarre chain of events in "The Bean Trees," she found herself raising a Cherokee child named Turtle. Now six years old, the little girl who was initially so traumatized by previous abuse that she didn't speak has made he...
[> more]The book "Pigs in Heaven" belongs to the following genres:
Literary Fiction / General Fiction / Literary Reading Group Guide General Fiction Fiction - General
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About Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the former Republic of Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in Biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her most famous works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally.
Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. Each of her books published since 1993 have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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