Read Smart Book Discussion: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
This event is part of the Read Smart event series.
When
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Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 6:30pm to 7:30pm
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About This Event
Join us for a book discussion of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver’s debut novel, The Bean Trees, released in 1988. Our discussion will be led by Janine Kossen, JD, MPH, director of NC State’s Women’s Center.
About the book: The Bean Trees is the engrossing tale of Taylor Greer, a rural Kentucky native who just wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.
Read Smart is a collaboration between the NC State University Libraries and the Wake County Public Libraries.
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Marian Fragola
(marian_fragola@ncsu.edu)
Admission
Free and open to the public.
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