The desert climate, landscape and vegetation are completely foreign to Taylor, and in learning to love Arizona, she also comes face to face with its rattlesnakes and tarantulas. With Turtle in tow, Taylor lands in Tucson, Ariz., with two flat tires and decides to stay. Taylor playfully names her little foundling ``Turtle,'' because she clings with an unrelenting, reptilian grip at the same time, Taylor aches at the thought of the silent, staring child's past suffering. The unmistakable voice of its irresistible heroine is whimsical, yet deeply insightful. A first novel, The Bean Trees is an overwhelming delight, as random and unexpected as real life. But when a forlorn Cherokee woman drops a baby in Taylor's passenger seat and asks her to take it, she does. Taylor leaves home in a beat-up '55 Volkswagen bug, on her way to nowhere in particular, savoring her freedom. By the time she reaches Oklahoma, this strong-willed young Kentucky native with a quick tongue and an open mind is catapulted into a surprising new life. Feisty Marietta Greer changes her name to ""Taylor'' when her car runs out of gas in Taylorville, Ill.
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