Author of the bean trees5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() She lands a job fixing spares at Jesus Is Lord Used Tires and finds a housemate in Lou Ann Ruiz, another transplanted Kentuckian and single mother. The challenges are formidable, but so are Taylor's resources. In addition to four busted tires, she suddenly has a child to care for - an abused, catatonic Indian baby thrust into her arms at an Oklahoma stopover by a frightened Cherokee woman. The VW makes it as far as Arizona, and Taylor figures that's as good a place as any to stop for repairs. ![]() Taylor Greer jump-starts her elderly '55 Volkswagen bug one fine day and lurches out of the grinding poverty of Pittman County, Ky., bound for a better life somewhere out West. In a neatly constructed tale, Barbara Kingsolver gives readers something that's increasingly hard to find today - a character to believe in and laugh with and admire. The Bean Trees, a refreshingly perceptive first novel, celebrates a young woman's coming of age in an unusual setting peopled by wonderfully outrageous characters. ![]()
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