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Author Kingsolver, Barbara.

Title The bean trees / a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Published London : Virago, 1989

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Description 232 pages ; 23 cm
Contents It is the Southern novel taken west, its colors as translucent and polished as one of those slices of rose agate from a desert shop
Summary Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees
Analysis Fiction in English American writers, 1945- - Texts
Notes Fiction in English. American writers,. 1945- - Texts (BNB/PRECIS)
Subject Abandoned children -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 1853810371