I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Pigs in Heavenin Paperback edition on 1994 and has 343 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon As Newsweek says, “A novel full of miracles.” Although, I had my doubts! In 1993, Pigs in Heaven won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. My Take It took some 58 pages before I got into it. It’s a slow-moving, meandering story that takes its time to set up everyone’s background, and it just took Kingsolver that long before she got the hook in. While telling this tale of a strong woman and her equally strong daughter, Kingsolver manages to include a telling history of the Trail of Tears and all that the Cherokee accomplished until the federal government finally managed to finish the job of destroying them. What they can’t destroy, no matter how hard they try, is the sense of family. We need more of this in all our lives. Family that blurs the lines of who a child answers to. Blurs the lines of who they can love, who they must hate. […]

Well, okay, it could be in your city. If you get a move on! Tuesday, January 15, Penguin Young Readers Group and Tumbler have organized a way in which kids can “attend” a “speaking engagement with authors John and Hank Green to celebrate the one-year anniversary of The Fault in Our Stars with musical guests, the Mountain Goats, at Carnegie Hall” for an Evening of Awesome. The event will be available via livestreaming through participating libraries and bookstores and will be followed over the weekend, January 19-20, with the Ultimate John Green Trivia Challenge. Talk to your local bookstore or library about using the kit Tumbler has put together to: Host a livestreaming through Tumblr Conduct the trivia challenge, or Both (Check with John Green’s Tumblr to see which libraries and bookstores are currently on board. Thirteen states and one country, so far!) Engage the kids and encourage them to come up with questions from the John Green books and submit them for the Ultimate John Green Trivia Challenge!