num_pages: 323
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Bean Trees
titlecomplete: The Bean Trees
characters: Estevan, Mattie, Turtle Greer, Lou Ann Ruiz, Esperanza, Taylor Greer
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, School, Novels, Adult, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 152502
places: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona
series: Greer Family
publisher: HarperTorch