![]() ![]() ![]() It has 232 pages - split into 17 chapters, all named. The author of such bestsellers as The Lacuna, The Poinsonwood Bible, and Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver has been hailed for her striking imagery and clear dialogue, and this is the novel that began her remarkable literary career. Pigs in Heaven was published in 1993 and The Bean Trees was in 1988 (and was her first novel). Written with humour and pathos, this highly praised novel focuses on love and friendship, abandonment and belonging as Taylor, out of money and seemingly out of options, settles in dusty Tucson and begins working at Jesus Is Lord Used Tires while trying to make a life for herself and Turtle. The narrator begins the novel by telling a story from her past. Now a standard in college literature classes across thenation, and a book that. ![]() She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Barbara Kingsolvers 1988 debut novel is a classic workof American fiction. 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. The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. ![]()
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