"Oh, Oprah will find us. She has staff who watch for good people trying to change the world for the better. Like informants."
-Pat Passero
Heather didn't expect to fall in love with a stranger's life story. But that's exactly what happened when she was hired to help Pat - an older woman in hospice, a mother, a teacher, a lifelong pig lover - become the author she'd always wanted to be.
What followed wasn't just a writing project. It became a reckoning. Pat opened doors to her past she hadn't meant to open - love and loss, ambition and regret, the kind of stories most people carry quietly to the grave. Heather became the one who caught them.
Pig Tales and Popcorn is what happens when someone finally gets to tell their whole story, and someone else has the patience to truly listen. It's a memoir about friendship forged at the end of a life - and proof that no story, however small it feels from the inside, is too small to matter.