Bean Trees 2

In the end, I was really quite happy with this book. Finding out that Turtle had watched her mother's funeral was pretty powerful, and the fact that she was so innocent and calm about it was a bit cliché, because at the beginning it was Taylor who found this terrified little girl at a roadside bar, and now she was the one crying with Turtle not really understanding why it is so significant. I also thought that Kingsolver picked the perfect setting for the ending. Originally, she portrayed Oklahoma as a baron wasteland sort of area, but now she completely changed the viewpoint, with it being lush, mountainous, and life sustaining. This sense of renewal was all over the place as the book concluded, with Lou Ann getting a new boyfriend, Taylor's mother quitting her job, and even a bit earlier with the bar changing owners and being fixed up to look like a nice establishment. Overall, I actually enjoyed this book, and it completely beat my expectations.

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