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The reader for the unabridged audiobook did a great job with all of the voices except for the voice of Turtle, the six year old child whose story this is. For whatever reason, the reader decided to give Turtle a weird, mopey voice that was distracting every time Turtle had something to say. Luckily, Turtle doesn't talk much in this book.
The book continues the story that Kingsolver started in The Bean Trees and makes a run at looking at white adoption of Native American children and the different ...more
The book continues the story that Kingsolver started in The Bean Trees and makes a run at looking at white adoption of Native American children and the different ...more
This book is just as beautiful as The Bean Trees. Review coming up.
REVIEW UPDATE:
The first ever Barbara Kingsolver that I read was The Bean Trees, which I liked immensely. So I resolved to get hold of another BK book and when I saw Pigs in Heaven in my favorite book shop, Booksale, I bought it without any hesitation.
Pigs in Heaven turns out to be a sequel to The Bean Trees and I loved it as well. It is wonderful to see Taylor Greer now all grown up and mature and her daughter Turtle able ...more
REVIEW UPDATE:
The first ever Barbara Kingsolver that I read was The Bean Trees, which I liked immensely. So I resolved to get hold of another BK book and when I saw Pigs in Heaven in my favorite book shop, Booksale, I bought it without any hesitation.
Pigs in Heaven turns out to be a sequel to The Bean Trees and I loved it as well. It is wonderful to see Taylor Greer now all grown up and mature and her daughter Turtle able ...more
This was my first Kingsolver novel. I was instantly intrigued by her description of Kentucky, so detailed and specific that I knew it could have only been written by a native, I immediately looked up her Wikipedia page to discover that she was indeed from Eastern KY! This is an excellent novel, fast read, intriguing and realistic characters, funny at times, deep at others. I felt that the ending was a little disappointing (too unrealistic how everything falls "Happily Ever After" into place). Ha
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Couldn't decide between a 4 and 5. I really liked it.
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I enjoyed the writing and the story but every so often got fed up with certain ideas being repeated over and over (e.g. a man who cooks and talks a lot - how shocking!), some lovely use of language however.
Pigs in Heaven picks up where The Bean Trees left off. Turtle is now six and after she appeared on the news the Cherokee nation has begun searching for her and insisting that she should be living in a Cherokee family, not with Taylor. The book is about Taylor's struggle to keep Turtle and to prove that they are a family.
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