Program Title:
The Bean Trees
PRA Archive #:
SZ0745.05q
Description:
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 and Esperanza pose as Turtle's biological parents so that Taylor can legally adopt Turtle. Taylor leaves the couple in an Oklahoma safe house. Poetry and prose by David Oates and Mary Ledford. - RECORDED: 1992.
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Item duration:
30:00
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