The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. 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. She succeeds,...
The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. "As clear as air. It is the southern novel taken west, its colors as translucent and polished as one of those slices of rose agate...
Barbara Kingsolver's 1988 debut novel is a classic workof American fiction. Now a standard in college literature classes across thenation, and a book that appears in translation across the globe, The BeanTrees is not only a literary masterpiece but a popular triumphanarrative...
Barbara Kingsolver's 1988 debut novel is a classic workof American fiction. Now a standard in college literature classes across thenation, and a book that appears in translation across the globe, The BeanTrees is not only a literary masterpiece but a popular triumph—anarrative that...
A poor girl from Kentucky, Taylor Greer travels west after high school. Midway across the country, she becomes the guardian of an abandoned Native American baby girl. When she runs out of money, she is taken under wing by a grandmotherly woman. A wonderful novel about love and...
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Attempting to break away from her harsh life in Appalachia, Taylor Greer finds herself in a small Oklahoma town, with a new name, a new life, and, strangest of all, a new Cherokee baby girl whom she names Turtle.
Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes by buying a '55 Volkswagon and heading west. By the time she reaches Tucson, Arizona, she's inherited a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. A memorable novel about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging.