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animal sacrifice
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Pigs
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sacrifice
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Walla-Walla
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Product details
- ISBN 9781597090445
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world’s detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community, environmental responsibility, and the possibility of innocence.
Johanna Stoberock is the author of the novel City of Ghosts. Her honors include the James W. Hall Prize for Fiction, an Artist Trust GAP award, and a Jack Straw Fellowship. In 2016 she was named Runner Up for the Italo Calvino Prize for Fiction. Her work has appeared in the New York Times,the Best of the Net Anthology, and Catamaran, among others. She lives in Walla Walla, Washington, where she teaches at Whitman College.
www.johannastoberock.com
