Full name: The Bean Trees: A Novel

Author: Barbara Kingsolver Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Contemporary, Classic Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812474947 9780061097317 0812474945 0061097314

Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places. This book is part of the "Greer Family" series. Here are some other books from this series: "Pigs in Heaven" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler A Widow for One Year by John Irving Blessings by Anna Quindlen Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton Moon Palace by Paul Auster The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk