The Bean Trees: A Novel Climatology Non-Obvious Book Award • Longlisted

Non-Obvious Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal

* Before Your Memory Fades

unravel a family

they aren’t so sure it’s a good idea

is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son

The Bean Trees: A Novel Climatology Non-Obvious Book Award • LonglistedThe Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open mouthed and smiling. Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolvers remarkable literary career. It 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