The Bean Trees / Barbara Kingsolver| produced by Tom Hansell. - SERIES: Front porch stories| no. 5 The story of how two women from East Kentucky come to live together in Tucson, Arizona. One woman, Marietta Grier, changes her name to escape from Pitman County by driving West as far as her '55 V.W. Bug will take her. The other woman, LuAnn Ruiz, marries a rodeo cowboy who abandons her in Tucson after she becomes pregnant. CONTENT: Estevan, Esperanza, Mattie and Taylor celebrate the summer's first rain. Taylor returns from the celebration to find that Turtle has been attacked. When she reports the incident, the police bring a social worker onto the scene. - RECORDED: 1992.
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