{"product_id":"pigs-in-heaven-a-novel-isbn-9780062277763","title":"Pigs in Heaven: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A novel full of miracles.”  — \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Breathtaking. . . unforgettable. . . . This profound, funny, bighearted novel, in which people actually find love and kinship in surprising places, is also heavenly. . . . A rare feat and a triumph.” \u003c\/strong\u003e— \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e Pigs in Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethe National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e picks up where her modern classic \u003cem\u003eThe Bean Trees\u003c\/em\u003e left off and 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother's belief in her lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePigs in Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation as it draws the reader into a world of heartbreak and redeeming love, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eWhen six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother's belief in her lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. 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