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Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
4.0
I listened to Pigs in Heaven directly after finishing the first part of Taylor and Turtle's story in The Bean Trees. The second book takes place a few years after the first book has finished. Taylor and Turtle live with Taylor's boyfriend Jax and life is generally going fine until Turtle's existence makes the national TV and a Cherokee solicitor, on seeing this, takes it upon herself to dig into the circumstances of Turtle's adoption. After all, abandoned and orphaned Cherokee children should be placed with Cherokee families.
Just like The Bean Trees, parts of this book lack focus a little and the story doesn't progress. However, overall I preferred this second book to the first. I learned a lot about the Cherokee Nation and the status of Native Americans in the United States but the suspense of whether Taylor and Turtle are allowed to stay together is kept up right until the last chapter. There is also a whole host of weird and wonderful characters who surprise you at every turn.
Just like The Bean Trees, parts of this book lack focus a little and the story doesn't progress. However, overall I preferred this second book to the first. I learned a lot about the Cherokee Nation and the status of Native Americans in the United States but the suspense of whether Taylor and Turtle are allowed to stay together is kept up right until the last chapter. There is also a whole host of weird and wonderful characters who surprise you at every turn.