Pigs in Heaven

1993 novel by Barbara Kingsolver
0-06-016801-3OCLC27431722
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20LC ClassPS3561.I496 P54 1993Preceded byThe Bean Trees 

Pigs in Heaven (ISBN 9780060168018) is a 1993 novel by Barbara Kingsolver; it is the sequel to her first novel, The Bean Trees. It continues the story of Taylor Greer and Turtle, her adopted Cherokee daughter. It highlights the strong relationships between mothers and daughters, with special attention given to the customs, history, and present living situation of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. It is Kingsolver's first book to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.[1]

The New York Times Book Review praised Kingsolver's "extravagantly gifted narrative voice" and called the novel a "resounding achievement".[2][3]

References

  1. ^ And Baby Makes Two", New York Times, June 27, 1993.
  2. ^ The New York Times Book Review, October 18, 1998.
  3. ^ PIGS IN HEAVEN, Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1993.
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Works by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Bean Trees
  • Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
  • Homeland and Other Stories
  • Animal Dreams
  • Another America
  • Pigs in Heaven
  • High Tide in Tucson
  • The Poisonwood Bible
  • Prodigal Summer
  • Small Wonder
  • Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver)
  • The Lacuna
  • Flight Behavior
  • Unsheltered
  • Demon Copperhead
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