A Day No Pigs Would Die

When young Rob Peck saves a neighbor’s cow, the neighbor gives him a pig as a reward. Pinky becomes Rob’s constant companion as he juggles backbreaking farm work with the schooling that is so important to his father. Pinky is a pet and a friend, but on a farm every animal must have its use—and even a boy must sometimes be a man. A moving coming-of-age story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir.