SWINE NOT

SWINE NOT
Author: Jimmy Buffett
Copyright 2008
Back Bay Books – Little, Brown and Company
ISBN - 13: 978-0-316-11405-9
Trade paperback $ 14.99
257 pages
Fiction

“Always remember, a cat looks down on a man, a dog looks up to a man, but a pig will look a man straight in the eye and see his equal.” – Winston Churchill

Usually Jimmy Buffett uses his life for his books, however, this time a friend agreed to give him this story complete with pictures of the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig. When Jimmy first heard this story from Helen Bransford, he couldn’t wait to expand and fictionalize this story, complete with the pictures.

SWINE NOT begins in Tennessee with a family led by a single-mother living on a farm raising her twin preteens, a boy and a girl. The boy is gifted as a soccer player and the girl, as a fashion designer. Even the pig is an extremely gifted soccer goalie.

Their enjoyable, peaceful life changes abruptly when their mother is offered a position in New York as a pastry chef and a 4-star hotel. This position that she does accept includes moving the family, including the pets. All of them are a little surprised when they first see their house on the roof. It is essentially a greenhouse.

Adjusting to a completely different lifestyle seems rather seamless for all of them, except for the pig. To add to their troubles, the head chef has managed to have all exotic animals banned from the building. The twins immediately decide that their daily challenge is to hide, disguise, or smuggle the pig in and out of the building. Unfortunately for the pig, she is intelligent and misses her independence back in Tennessee and being separated from her own twin who lives someone in New York.

Jimmy Buffett has some unusual accomplishments such as having the #1 spot in both fiction and non-fiction of the New York Times Best Selling Lists with TALES FROM MARGARITAVILLE. He also has recorded over forty albums and has written many books which were based on his life. This is his first work based on a friend’s pig and developing a fictional story around it.

SWINE NOT is relaxing, fun, and light reading. This book would be great for reading while on the beach or just kicking back and enjoying a good book.