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The Bean Trees (Greer Family #1)

Barbara Kingsolver

Hardcover | Pages: 232 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 131574 Users | 6177 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Bean Trees
ISBN:	0812474945 (ISBN13: 9780812474947)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Greer Family #1
Characters:	Taylor Greer, Turtle Greer, Lou Ann Ruiz, Estevan, Esperanza, Mattie
Setting:	Tucson, Arizona(United States)

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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.

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Title	:	The Bean Trees (Greer Family #1)
Author	:	Barbara Kingsolver
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 232 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1989 by Perfection Learning (first published December 1st 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels

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So many things about this book bugged me.1. Someone abandons a baby in your car and you don't get ahold of the police.2. Someone abandons a baby, in your broken down car, you don't have a home or money or a destination in mind, so you decide to adopt baby.3. You decide to adopt baby, but you spent the next several years being so bewildered by motherhood that you might as well have left baby in the car to be raised by coyotes.4. Americans in general are directly responsible for the torture of

I read The Poisonwood Bible a little over a year ago and loved it, so I'm not sure what made me take so long to pick up something else by Kingsolver (maybe that ever-so-long to-be-read list of mine...) I was aware that this was her debut novel and that some readers felt it wasn't as good as her later work, but I was pleasantly surprised. I agree that it doesn't demonstrate quite the same depth and polish as Poisonwood, but it's a bloody good debut and there are clear hints of how sharp and

Barbara Kingsolver I now seem to have a love/hate relationship with this writer. My first attempt of reading her work was The Poisonwood Bible. I didnt like it all.. Stopped reading a little after half way. For the longest I avoided her books until a good friend (whose judgment I trust) persuaded me to read this novelThe Bean TreesI am so happy now that I have read this book. Kingsolver tells a wonderful story about love. About the love a person feels for friends, family and children even when

Let me tell you something. . . if Barbara Kingsolver's fictional characters suddenly spring to life and buy houses in my beloved neighborhood. . . I'm moving.Is it because they are creeps and criminals?No. It's because they're boring and humorless and weird. I've officially read 3 of Kingsolver's novels now, and I haven't liked a single character. I enjoyed the story and the writing of Prodigal Summer, yet still managed to dislike every character. Poisonwood Bible and this one? No thanks. It's

I've been dipping into Flight Behavior at the same time as I've read The Bean Trees, and it's immediately apparent just how far Kingsolver's writing has developed in the years since she wrote this, her first novel.Her two main female characters are young, uncertain of where they belong in the world, and slowly forge a close friendship, each facing up to difficult circumstances, both poor, both find they can d0 things they didn't think they could because they have built friendships.The plot is

This story was just a ton of fun! I whipped through it very quickly. Nice flow, and at times hilarious, especially in the first half of the book or so. The Southern expressions cracked me up, and I love the way she poked fun at the 80s New Age culture.The style is somewhat similar to Elizabeth Berg, but without so much heavy sentiment. (That's not a criticism of Berg. I like her books a lot, too.)I thought I hated this author because of Poisonwood Bible. I'm delighted to find out she can tell a

When I first read this book several years ago, I was terribly impressed by 1) her writing style, which I really like - I wish I could write like that2) the interesting plot of a single girl who had avoided teenage pregnancy through her young life only to end up with someone else's baby3) the relationship she has with her mother, who believes her daughter "hung the moon in the sky" and can absolutely do no wrong. I think it would be wonderful if my daughters came out of their childhoods not