Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Bean Trees

The print in my trade paperback copy is rather tiny.

Barbara Kingsolver grabs the readers’ attention from the first page and holds it however by the half-way point I had fallen asleep reading this tome 8 times. It does pick up later on.

Modern fuel-injected vehicles cannot be started by popping the clutch in third gear while they’re being towed, pushed, or run downhill.

The bean trees of the title are Wisteria Vines. The story involves illegal aliens from Guatemala and an orphaned Cherokee child who is the victim of child abuse.

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