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The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver

  • 259 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1988
  • 31 editions
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1 About this book

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story, humor, and friendship.

  • Friendship in fiction
  • Bildungsromans
  • Friendship
  • Coming of age
  • Humor
  • India
  • Automobile travel
  • Young women in fiction

2 About Barbara Kingsolver

Born 1955

Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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