The Bean Trees

by Kingsolver, Barbara

The Bean Trees, first published in 1988, is the first book written by Barbara Kingsolver and was followed by a sequel, Pigs in Heaven.

Taylor Greer hightails it out of Kentucky as soon as she gets a car, refusing to be just another small-town girl.  She soon finds herself in Oklahoma near Cherokee territory, and in a parking lot, a desperate and frightened woman hands Taylor a Cherokee toddler and leaves.

Taylor and the child, named Turtle, keep moving out west and try to find somewhere to put down roots and grow.

British Fantasy Award (1988)

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