The Bean Trees
eBook - ePub

The Bean Trees

A Novel

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Bean Trees

A Novel

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780061097317
eBook ISBN
9780061809699
Subtopic
Classics

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. One: The One to Get Away
  4. Two: New Year’s Pig
  5. Three: Jesus Is Lord Used Tires
  6. Four: Tug Fork Water
  7. Five: Harmonious Space
  8. Six: Valentine’s Day
  9. Seven: How They Eat in Heaven
  10. Eight: The Miracle of Dog Doo Park
  11. Nine: Ismene
  12. Ten: The Bean Trees
  13. Eleven: Dream Angels
  14. Twelve: Into the Terrible Night
  15. Thirteen: Night-Blooming Cereus
  16. Fourteen: Guardian Saints
  17. Fifteen: Lake o’ the Cherokees
  18. Sixteen: Soundness of Mind and Freedom of Will
  19. Seventeen: Rhizobia
  20. An Excerpt from UNSHELTERED
  21. P.S.
  22. Praise
  23. Books by Barbara Kingsolver
  24. Copyright
  25. About the Publisher