The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver [10th ANNIVERSARY HARDCOVER / 1998]
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver [GREER FAMILY #1]
10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION [1998] HARPER COLLINS
10th Anniversary Edition, hardcover re-print, featuring
Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.
Dust jacket has visibly worn edges and corners, but is otherwise in tact, clean and vibrant.
Book itself is excellent; reads good as new.
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.