Pigs Can't Swim: A Memoir

A memoir by the youngest of nine children in a rural Maine family that's "an unruly, joyous troublemaker of a book" (Richard Hoffman, Award-Winning Writer).

With everything happening on Helen Peppe's backwoods Maine farm, life was wild—and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft: everything seemed—and was—out of control. In telling her wayward family tale, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and poigna...