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I wanted to write a history of how pigs and humans came to live and work together, and two of my sows, Wilma and Mona, were just the characters to pull it off. Wilma is ambitious and histrionic, so her entries are in the form of an epic poem. As a pig of far fewer words, Mona replies to Wilma's epic in the style of a haiku.

 

If you read from beginning to end, you'll travel with pigs and people from ancient history up to our contemporary era.