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Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel could have been a simple, enjoyable story about a young woman’s escape from her stultifying life in rural Kentucky and the adventurous road trip which ensues. However with the introduction of other threads such as the inhumane treatment of Native Americans driven, “like livestock” to their Cherokee Nation on an empty Oklahoma plain and the plight of Guatemalan ‘illegals’ Estevan and his wife Esperanza, befriended by our heroine Taylor Greer, Kingsolver has elevat
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