num_pages: 232
description: Plucky Taylor Greer grows up poor in rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away. She succeeds on both counts when she buys an old car and heads west. But midway across the country motherhood catches up with her when she becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tuscon they encounter an extraordinary array of people, and with their help, Taylor builds herself and her sweet, stunned child a life.
language: English
title: The Bean Trees
titlecomplete: The Bean Trees
characters: Taylor Greer, Esperanza, Turtle Greer, Mattie, Lou Ann Ruiz, Estevan
genres: Fiction, School, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 152532
places: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona
series: Greer Family
publisher: Abacus