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  • I picked this up at the library based on others' recommendations. I'm not sure I loved it, but it was good. Just a good character story - one of those "makes you appreciate what you've got" type stories.

    

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  • She's got a very interesting writing style. I really find her books refreshing. This one kept my attention all the way through. I'm going to be reading more by this author.

    

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  • I love all of Kingsolver's books and recommend all of them highly.

    

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  • I enjoyed this novel, but it definately wasn't as good as Kingsolver's other novel The Poisonwood Bible. I think some girls might identify with Taylor, the narrator. She didn't feel she fit in where she was and decided to explore the country to see where she fit. This kind of reminded me of Massachu ... Continue

    I enjoyed this novel, but it definately wasn't as good as Kingsolver's other novel The Poisonwood Bible. I think some girls might identify with Taylor, the narrator. She didn't feel she fit in where she was and decided to explore the country to see where she fit. This kind of reminded me of Massachusetts, California, Timbuktu in that it talked about traveling across country and stopping at various locations along the way.

    

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Ten years ago, Barbara Kingsolver published a first novel that is well on its way to becoming a classic work of American fiction. The Bean Trees is a book readers have taken to their hearts. It is now a standard in college literature classes across the nation and has been translated for a readership stretching from Japan to Romania.

When it was first published, however, its author was unknown. Word of mouth spread slowly among booksellers, librarians, critics and readers with a passion to share their favorite books. In The Bean Trees they found a spirited protagonist, Taylor Greer, who grew up in poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when Taylor heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time she arrives in Tucson, she has acquired a completely unexpected child 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.

Most readers of The Bean Trees discovered the novel in its paperback edition. On the 10th anniversary of its first publication, HarperFlamingo is proud to offer readers this special hardback edition, redesigned to be easy on the eyes and priced to be accessible to every lover of good fiction.

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