The legal dispute decribed in Pigs in Heaven is not based on a single case history but was constructed from the materials of exisiting law and historical fact, insofar as I understand them. The specifics of legal process vary among tribes. Other people would tell this story differently, and none of them would be wrong.
About the Author
BARBARA KINGSOLVER's ten published books include novels, collections of short stories, poetry, essays, and an oral history. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts.
Ms. Kingsolver grew up in Kentucky and earned a graduate degree in biology before becoming a full-time writer. With her husband, Steven Hopp, she co-writes articles on natural history, plays jazz, gardens, and raises two daughters. Their family divides its time between Tucson, Arizona, and a farm in southern Appalachia.
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
"Very few novelists are as habit-forming as Kingsolver.... [It] succeeds on the strength of Kingsolver's clear-eyed, warmhearted writing and irresistible characters."
--Newsweek
"Full of wit, compassion, and intelligence."
--People
"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."
--Cosmopolitan
"The delights of superior fiction can be experienced here.... Taylor Greer and her adopted Cherokee daughter, Turtle, first met in The Bean Trees, will captivate readers anew.... Assured and eloquent...it mixes wit, wisdom, and the expert skills of a born raconteur."
--Publishers Weekly
"That rare combination of a dynamic story told in dramatic language, combined with issues that are serious, debatable, and painful.... [It's] about the human heart in all its shapes and ramifications."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Masterful and touching.... The amount of fresh imagery and perceptive observation [Kingsolver] fits into this craggy surface makes it impossible to read any three consecutive pages without knowing we're in the presence of a brilliant writer, one not to be missed."
--Detroit News
"A crackerjack storyteller...Kingsolver has a way with miracles. One is the way she opens her plot to them. The other is the way she makes us believe."
--Newsday
"Immensely readable, warmhearted...brim[ming] with down-home wisdom and endearing characters."
--Boston Globe
BOOKS BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Fiction
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories
The Bean Trees
Essays
Small Wonder
High Tide in Tucson
Poetry
Another America
Nonfiction
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Copyright
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following song lyrics: From "Big Boys," by Barbara Kingsolver and Spencer Gorin, copyright (c) 1989.
From "Falling for Me," by Barbara Kingsolver Spencer Gorin, copyright (c) 1992.
PIGS IN HEAVEN. Copyright (c) 1993 by Barbara Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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