Johanna Stoberock is the author of the novels Pigs (Red Hen Press) and City of Ghosts (W.W. Norton). About Pigs: Four children live on an island that is the repository for all the  world’s garbage. Garbage arrives, the children sort it, and then they  feed it to a herd of pigs. The pigs are beautiful, but fierce, with  sharp teeth and insatiable appetites, and they eat anything. When a boy  washes ashore in a barrel, the children must decide what to do with  him—is he more of the world’s detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or  is he one of them? The novel explores questions about community,  environmental responsibility, and the possibility of innocence. 
In this episode we discuss the novel, where the ideas came from and what they mean for her and what we can all do the address climate change.
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