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Off the Shelf
By Erin Flaaen | Friday,
February 03, 2017
THE BEAN TREES begins with a tire exploding and a woman leaving
home in a battered car and changing her name. From this description, it may
sound as if I’m speaking of a high-octane thriller, but THE BEAN TREES is a
beautiful literary novel, Barbara Kingsolver’s first (before she was famous
for THE POISONWOOD BIBLE). Missy-turned-Taylor Greer is neither running from
a killer nor from the law. She’s a part Cherokee, twentysomething, down-home
Kentucky girl who never could quite sit still.
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