Pigs in Heaven

This is an awesome book. I had to read it for a class that I am taking to be a social worker, but I would recommend it to anyone. It is about an Indian Child that was adopted and the current ICWA laws. Not only will you learn something about history but you will want to pass this story on to whomever you know.

Lovely story. I read it when it was on Oprahs Book Club list back when I was in 11th grade english. It is a light, refreshing, and quick read.

this was the first barbara kingsolver book i ever read, and even though it's the end of a trilogy, it was not a bad place to start. also, i may have been slightly in love with jax. shut up, i was fourteen, and therefore allowed to be stupid.

I really like Kingsolver's writing and this is no exception. Well worth a read.

Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven is a good summer read, but it's terribly cliche. I don't want to ruin the plot for you, but if you turn to the last page you will choke on the last sentence. Cuuk.

I wrote this for class once and it's why this book gets one star. I thoroughly enjoyed “Pigs in Heaven” for the most part. Barbara Kingsolver has a unique writing style, which made it quite enjoyable. However the ending was just atrocious. After reading the ending the first thought that popped in my head was, “fuck that shit, man” and not just cause I’ve...more

I wrote this for class once and it's why this book gets one star. I thoroughly enjoyed “Pigs in Heaven” for the most part. Barbara Kingsolver has a unique writing style, which made it quite enjoyable. However the ending was just atrocious. After reading the ending the first thought that popped in my head was, “fuck that shit, man” and not just cause I’ve always wanted to say that in an essay. She made the book enjoyable and weaved the characters’ lives together to make it believable that all these totally separate lives just happen to come together and they’re all relative to one another. Afterwards, you think about it and it’s like, “that makes no sense and would never happen” but I believed it because she made it seem non fictional. It feels quite silly actually that Taylor’s mom (Alicia) just happens to go visit her cousin and talk with annawake, meanwhile Cash moves back home and falls in love with Alicia. Yeah, it’s all coincidental until it turns out Cash is Turtle’s grandfather and I believed every single word of it. After page 400 however, I’m onto her rouse and stop believing a word she says. You touched upon the ending in class and how it’s kind of a cop out. It’s like Kingsolver thought to herself when writing it, “well hey, this is a good book. I don’t know how to end it. I’ll make it a fairy tale.” I like to think of the book as an equivalent of a road trip without money. It’s like an enormous journey for the first three quarters of it until you run out of gas. The “gas” in the book would be Kingsolver’s closure. It ties everything up but makes absolutely no sense. I was expecting a huge legal battle or the equivalent of one between Taylor and Cash over Turtle but there was none of that to be found. Instead, we were giving a ten minute hearing in which they decided that Turtle could stay with Taylor for nine months and spend the summer with Cash and the love of his life, Alicia. Somewhere during this time Taylor decides she really does love Jax. After the hearing, a television is shot and they have a pig roast; the end. Nobody really wants a happy ending, at least I don’t. One side should have lost and one side should have won, like real life; no compromises necessary. I mean, a compromise scenario would have been satisfactory, had Taylor’s mother not just happened to fall in love with Cash leaving everybody to sing, “kumbaya” and have a lovely pig roast. That outcome is just totally coincidental and too unbelievable. I would have much rather had the book end in the middle of a sentence on page 400 then reading this ending. At least then we could be left thinking, “what the heck happened to Turtle. Hmmm.”   hide

this book had the most sugary sweet ending possible! not that Im complaining...