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Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver

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#605 of 8,085 books · #344 in Fiction

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1993).

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 author vividly renders a world of heartbreak and redeeming love as she defines and defies the boundaries of family, and illuminates the many separate truths about the ties that bind us and tear us apart.

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Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN-13
9780816158782
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family and identityMotherhood and adoptionNative American heritage and belonging

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