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.