- Indian children, Friendship in fiction, Literature, Indian children in fiction
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Barbara Kingsolver
- First published
- February 11, 1998
- Pages
- 259
- Publisher
- Turtleback, Harper, Perfection Learning Prebound
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- English, Spanish, cat
- ISBN
- 9780061433382
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“I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign.”
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet.
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