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** spoiler alert ** Turtle and Taylor (of "The Bean Trees") feature again here. Things start out with Turtle witnessing an accident and soon they end up on television and Annawake (a Cherokee lawyer) sees them. The adoption is discovered to be illegal and Taylor takes off with Turtle, roaming the country on a quest to hide and figure out what to do. Jax (Taylor's boyfriend), Alice (Taylor's mom), and Cash (an old man who returns to Oklahoma and turns out to be Turtle's grandpa) also are important characters. In the end, Alice and Cash end up together and Taylor is no longer Turtle's legal guardian, though she will spend 9 months of the year with her. Themes: family, Native american traditions and family, white/Native american history, love and identity, poverty The characters in this book are absolutely wonderful - I thoroughly enjoyed every single one. Kingsolver even brought minor characters to life. The settings were also great. My one complaint about this book is that it was totally predictable. Kingsolver's 'hints' were blatantly obvious and I had the end figured out somewhere around page 100 - about when Cash first comes into the story. The switch from one character's perspective to another's was easy enough to follow, but I sort of disliked it. I would have chosen just two characters (maybe Taylor and Annawake?) and stuck with that.

2022-11-14 16:54