Mrs. Turnbow's review
The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
Mrs. Turnbow's review
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Mrs. Turnbow's review
rating:
recommended for: people who hope to escape from their hometown/people who like a good story
"I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."
With that opening statemtn, we meet Taylor, a 20-something in the late 1970s/early 1980s who has made it her mission to A. not get pregnant in a high school where most girls do, and B. to get out of the small town she has grown up in. For 5 years she simply works, eventually earning enough money to buy an old car and escape from her town.
It's not long before Taylor is given a child who has already experienced too much-a woman hands her a "baby" and begs her to take it. The baby turns out to be a three year old American Indian girl who cannot speak and has already experienced unspeakable pain.
Taylor, now a mother of sorts, finds herself without a car, working at a tire store(and she fears tires, based on that first sentence). She has a mismatched family of sorts, and their stories intermingle as they ...more
With that opening statemtn, we meet Taylor, a 20-something in the late 1970s/early 1980s who has made it her mission to A. not get pregnant in a high school where most girls do, and B. to get out of the small town she has grown up in. For 5 years she simply works, eventually earning enough money to buy an old car and escape from her town.
It's not long before Taylor is given a child who has already experienced too much-a woman hands her a "baby" and begs her to take it. The baby turns out to be a three year old American Indian girl who cannot speak and has already experienced unspeakable pain.
Taylor, now a mother of sorts, finds herself without a car, working at a tire store(and she fears tires, based on that first sentence). She has a mismatched family of sorts, and their stories intermingle as they ...more
