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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.
About the Author
Johanna Stoberock is the author of the novels City of Ghosts (Norton) and Pigs (Red Hen Press) . The 2019 recipient of the Artist Trust/Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award and 2016 runner up for the Italo Calvino prize for fiction, her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Chicago Review of Books, Lit Hub, and the Best of the Net Anthology. Johanna lives in Walla Walla, Washington and teaches at Whitman College.Find out more at www.johannastoberock.com
