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Comparison of High Tide in Tuscon and Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

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her often-controversial political views (she once described herself as being a Marxist) in her essays and novels. She is also a single parent, now living the life of a  Bohemian artist in Arizona, who wishes to show her young daughter Camille the world as it really is, not colored in anyway by the persistent myth of the American Dream.  Kingsolver considers herself primarily as a novelist, but her engrossing collection of essays, entitled High Tide in Tucson, are autobiographical dialogues in which she appears to be conversing with  her readers, casually revealing bits and pieces of her life as if to emphasize that it is no different than anybody elses. The concepts that Kingsolver shares in 1995s  High Tide in Tucson appear in the content and strongly influence the style of her earlier novel, Pigs in Heaven, first published in 1993. Since childhood, Barbara Kingsolver has traveled  the world, and she has seen the diverse sights of opulence, squalor, and people of differing cultures and ethnicities. In one of the essays featured in High Tide in  Tucson, Kingsolver describes taking her daughter on a tour of Phoenixs Heard Museum, in hopes of giving the child a more realistic impression of Native Americans. As she explained,  she wanted to dispel the perception that Native Americans were relics much like archeological artifacts, "people that lived a long time ago" (Epstein 33). That memorable museum excursion not  only gave Camille some interesting historical information regarding Native Americans, but also provided the child with "some understanding of Native American reality outside spaghetti westerns" (Epstein 33).  In High Tide in Tucson, Kingsolver observed, "Im drawn like a kid to mud into the sticky terrain of cultural difference... I want to