Meanwhile, Alice’s daughter Taylor and Taylor’s adopted daughter, six-year-old Turtle Greer, are on an Easter vacation trip together touring the Grand Canyon when Turtle is witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam. Sugar now lives out in Oklahoma, on the Cherokee Nation, but just thinking about her makes Alice feel less alone in the world. Her mind wanders to thoughts of her cousin, Sugar, her childhood companion. She walks outside in the moonlight in her nightgown, imagining that she is the queen of her own humble garden. Her husband is captivated by the television, offering her little comfort or companionship. The novel opens in rural Kentucky, where Alice Greer has woken up in the middle of the night with a feeling of extreme loneliness. Pigs In Heaven is a 1993 novel by Barbara Kingsolver, and a sequel to her first novel, The Bean Trees.
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