Um, what?Īt least, that's pretty much Taylor's reaction: she's too baffled to do much of anything, and the woman takes off before she can refuse. The woman removes a small child from under the blanket she's wearing, and insists that Taylor take the child with her when she goes. Here we go: as Taylor gets into her car and prepares to drive away, a Cherokee woman comes out and taps on the windshield. But come on, you can't expect newly named Taylor to have known. We know, you were totally expecting something unexpected. After grabbing a cheap bite to eat at a bar, something totally unexpected happens. Hundreds of miles later, ex-Missy is forced to stop for repairs in the plains outside of Oklahoma City. To mark the occasion, she changes her name, reinventing herself as Taylor Greer after stopping for gas in Taylorville, Illinois. After saying goodbye to her Mama, she hits the road for good, not intending to ever look back. Narrating her story from an unspecified point in the future, Taylor Greer begins The Bean Trees by summing up her childhood and adolescence in Kentucky-the place where she, much like the Soggy Bottom Boys' " Man of Constant Sorrow," was "borned and raised." In case that tune wasn't already in your head from reading those pages.Īnyway, after working hard and saving up money for five and a half years after high school, Marietta "Missy" Greer buys a beat up old '55 Volkswagen bug.
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