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Central Branch | Fiction Kings | On loan until: 07/May/24 |
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Title Statement | Pigs in heaven: a novel / Barbara Kingsolver. |
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Author | Kingsolver, Barbara |
Publication | New York: HarperPerennial,[2013]©1993 |
Extent of Item | 354, 16 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780062277763 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr00904459 |
General Notes | Originally published in hardcover: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more." |
Summary | When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey, the three find love and wisdom in surprising places. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Orphans--Fiction--United States |
Families--Fiction--United States | |
Low-income single mothers--Fiction--United States | |
Cherokee--Fiction--Oklahoma | |
Indigenous children--Fiction--Legal status, laws, etc--United States | |
By Genre | Humorous fiction |
Domestic fiction |