![]() ![]() The premise of this novel is wonderfully timely, drawing on two issues that have recently compelled America: the rights of adoptive parents as opposed to biological ones, and the rights of jurisprudence in tribal matters-especially those concerning children adopted off the reservation. ![]() Turtle and Taylor wind up on the Oprah Winfrey show, which is where tribal lawyer Annawake Fourkiller sees them he decides to reclaim the obviously Cherokee Turtle for the Nation. Turtle is 6 years old now, still vaguely damaged from the abuse she suffered as an infant and toddler, but getting along fine in the world. Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, “Pigs in Heaven,” takes up where her first novel, “The Bean Trees,” left off, with the abandoned Cherokee girl, Turtle, and her adopted white mother, Taylor Greer, living in Tucson. ![]()
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