When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the HooverDam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her,lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity drawsher into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelopsnot only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touchestheir lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urbanSouthwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing theboundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties thatbind. It is a spellbinding novel of heartbreak and love.