
It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.” - Los Angeles Times section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.

She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant.

It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.” - Los Angeles TimesĪ bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career.


Taylor decided to adopt her without any second thought. As Taylor went to the town a woman approaches her, and she gave her a small child without any further explanation. In this novel, Taylor left her home and travel towards the west and went to Oklahoma near the territory of Cherokee.
