Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery Sy Montgomery is a well-known naturalist and a writer who lives with her husband in rural New England. She has neighbors who raise pigs and, being the kindly sort, they rescue their litter runts and keep them safely in a separate sty. But this season they are overrun with runts, so they ask Sy if she will consider adopting one of the runts. Not just any runt, but a special case: a tiny, sickly one, no bigger than a house cat, with every disease known to the barnyard. Sy and her husband agree to adopt the tiny spotted creature, knowing that he probably won't live long. But with their love and constant care, Christopher Hogwood, as he is named, does a strange thing: he begins to thrive. Thirteen years and 750 pounds later…

This is a charming story of the healing power of love and of building community around an oddity. It's also the story of a woman who has always been more comfortable with animals than humans, who is now learning to enjoy close, lifelong friendships - all because of a good, good pig.