“The Bean Trees” – Arizona Authors ONLINE Book Club

Join us as we continue to feature Arizona authors. Up next is “The Bean Trees” by Barbara Kingsolver

The Pima County library has copies of the e-audiobook, the physical book, and the book on CD. Pick your reading pleasure!

The Bean Trees is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. 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.

Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.

Meet Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver began her full-time writing career in the mid-1980s as a science writer for the University of Arizona, which eventually led to freelance feature writing, including many cover stories for the local alternative weekly, the Tucson Weekly.

She began her career in fiction writing after winning a short-story contest in a local Phoenix newspaper.
Kingsolver’s first novel, The Bean Trees, was published in 1988, and told the story of a young woman who leaves Kentucky for Arizona, adopting an abandoned child along the way; she wrote it at night while pregnant with her first child and struggling with insomnia.

Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize‘s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011 and the National Humanities Medal. After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperhead in 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction twice.

Since 1993, each one of her book titles have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.

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