num_pages: 238
description: There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year around. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In the 'Beans of Egypt', Maine, we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau and experience her obsession for the whole swarming Bean tribe. There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler, tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless, clinging babies, and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him.
language: English
title: The Beans of Egypt, Maine
titlecomplete: The Beans of Egypt, Maine
genres: Family, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Class, Adult, Literary Fiction, Literature, Poverty, Novels
ratings_count: 3588
places: Maine
series: Egypt, Maine
publisher: Grand Central Publishing