The Bean Trees
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?The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.? ? Los Angeles Times
A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable literary career.
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. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.
This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.
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Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote's Wild Home, a children's book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Contents
- One: The One to Get Away
- Two: New Year's Pig
- Three: Jesus Is Lord Used Tires
- Four: Tug Fork Water
- Five: Harmonious Space
- Six: Valentine's Day
- Seven: How They Eat in Heaven
- Eight: The Miracle of Dog Doo Park
- Nine: Ismene
- Ten: The Bean Trees
- Eleven: Dream Angels
- Twelve: Into the Terrible Night
- Thirteen: Night-Blooming Cereus
- Fourteen: Guardian Saints
- Fifteen: Lake o' the Cherokees
- Sixteen: Soundness of Mind and Freedom of Will
- Seventeen: Rhizobia
- An Excerpt from UNSHELTERED
- 1: Falling House
- P.S.
- About the author
- About the book
- Read on
- Praise
- Books by Barbara Kingsolver
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
