![]() ![]() But then, just when she finally hits the road to meet her fortune in the great unknown, the unthinkable happens: a Cherokee woman in Oklahoma tells Taylor to take her child.īarbara Kingsolver published The Bean Trees in 1988. Which was pretty typical in rural Kentucky in those days, if you didn't get that.īasically, to her, the burdens of marriage and child rearing seem like terrible traps. Having grown up poor and female in rural Kentucky, Taylor has made a point of never ending up barefoot and pregnant in anybody's kitchen. Getting sidelined by the unexpected is exactly what happens to Taylor Greer, the twenty-something protagonist of Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees. Basically, you go way out of your way to make sure that something NEVER happens, and then, just when you least expect it, it happens anyway. The premise of this book syncs up pretty nice with that old Alanis Morissette song about things being ironic. ![]()
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