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Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
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Est. Publication Date - Feb 1989
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FICTION "The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary....It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling." -Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Meet Taylor Greer. Clear-eyed and spirited, she grew up poor in rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away. She succeeds on both counts when she buys a '55 Volkswagen and heads west. But by the time our plucky if unlikely heroine pulls up on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, at an auto repair shop called Jesus Is Lord Used Tires that also happens to be a sanctuary for Central American refugees, she's "inherited" a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle. What follows—as Taylor meets the human condition head-on—is at the heart of this memorable novel about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places. "So wry and wise we wish it would never end....The chatty, down-home audacity of Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable first novel hooks us on the first page." -Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle "Idealistic and exhilarating, The Bean Trees is a book that combines the most careful craft with a moral code that is loving and expansive." - Philadelphia Inquirer Barbara Kingsolver is the author of three other books. She grew up in eastern Kentucky and now lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and daughter. ISBN 0-06-091554-4 90000 HarperPerennial A Division of Harper Collins Publishers Cover design by Suzanne Noli Cover illustration © by Lisa Desimini Author photograph © by Susan Pearce USA $11.00 CANADA $15.00 9 780060 915544 Nd:660
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The Bean Trees
ISBN: 0060915544
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Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Matt...
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