Pigs

By Johanna Stoberock

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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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781597098403

Johanna Stoberock

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. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Best of the Net Anthology, and Catamaran, among others. She teaches at Whitman College and currently resides in Walla Walla, Washington.

Reviews for Pigs

[3argonauta · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Weird little book with a Lord of the Flies vibe. Well written and enjoyable but the ending was not what I expected (or hoped for). Loved the descriptions of what was considered "garbage". Memorable.