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jmowreader

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6. If they would have filmed Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No PIgs Would Die"...
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 11:30 AM
Dec 2024

...it would be at the top of the list.

The narrator in this book receives a female piglet from a neighbor as a reward for saving his cow's life and names it Pinky. The family was counting on being able to sell piglets birthed by Pinky for income, but when Pinky turned out to be barren the narrator's father forced him to help slaughter Pinky.

Oh, and there's a wonderfully graphic scene of them trying to breed Pinky that's caused the book to wind up on "banned book" lists all across this great land of ours. Somehow I think they'd have trouble fitting the pig-fucking scene into a Young Adult movie.

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