section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more. Written with humor and pathos, this highly praised novel focuses on love and friendship, abandonment and belonging as Taylor, out of money and seemingly out of options, settles in dusty Tucson and begins working at Jesus Is Lord Used Tires while trying to make a life for herself and Turtle.īarbara Kingsolver has been hailed for her striking imagery and clear dialogue, and this is the novel that kicked off her remarkable literary career. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. She grew up in the middle of an alfalfa field, in the part of eastern Kentucky that lies between the opulent.
It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955. With two different but equally handsome covers. Available for the first time in mass-market, this edition of Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling novel, The Bean Trees, will be in stores everywhere in September. Is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.
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