Pigs in Heaven (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Barbara Kingsolver
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: The Southwestern United States; Seattle, Washington; and the fictional town of Heaven, Oklahoma
- Principal Characters: Taylor Greer, Turtle Greer, Alice Greer, Jax Thibodeaux, Annawake Fourkiller, Ledger Fourkiller, Johnny Cash Stillwater, Barbie
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Family literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, 1980’s, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Oklahoma, Women’s issues, Adoption or adopted children, Pigs, Arizona, Southwest, Loneliness, Orphans or orphanages, Pacific Northwest, Comedy, Kentucky, Rock music
- Locales: Kentucky, Arizona, Seattle, WA, Tucson, AZ, Oklahoma, Heaven, OK
The Novel
The third novel by Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven is a warm, humorous, and thought-provoking story of the conflict between an adoptive mother and a Native American tribe over the destiny of an adopted Cherokee girl. The novel covers a time span of about six months and is divided into three parts: “Spring,” “Summer,” and “Fall.” Generally, Kingsolver uses a third-person-limited point of view. Each scene is presented in the author’s folksy third-person voice, and the view of the action is usually limited to the perspective of one of the five...
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