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A sun-warmed, big-hearted journey about finding your people in the most unexpected places. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Bean Trees Anniversary Edition.
- sun-baked
- warm
- hopeful
- grounded
- 01
Pigs in heaven
Barbara Kingsolver · 1993
A warm, road-tripping exploration of what it truly means to belong to a family and a culture.
- 02
Animal Dreams Cloth Signed
Barbara Kingsolver · 1987
A moving, dream-laced exploration of family, courage, and finding one's place in a threatened world.
- 03
Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons · 1987
A poignant journey from the shadows of childhood misfortune into the warmth of a loving, chosen home.
- 04
Where the heart is
Billie Letts · 1995
A big-hearted, folksy embrace of a novel about the families we build when the ones we were born with leave us behind.
- 05
Half broke horses
Jeannette Walls
A dusty, unsentimental ride alongside a fiercely independent woman carving her own path through the American Southwest.
- 06
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson
A resilient journey through rugged Appalachian hollers, celebrating the quiet defiance of a marginalized woman armed with the power of books.
- 07
Christy
Catherine Marshall · 1967
A sweeping, heartfelt journey into an isolated mountain community where an idealistic young woman learns the true cost and beauty of loving her neighbors.
- 08
Sula
Toni Morrison
A fierce, lyrical exploration of a friendship so intense it blurs the line between love and destruction.
- 09
The round house
Louise Erdrich
A gripping, deeply felt coming-of-age story wrapped in a quest for justice on an Ojibwe reservation.
- 10
A tree grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
A tender, clear-eyed portrait of a girl reading her way out of poverty, finding beauty in the cracks of a harsh world.
- 11
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins
A psychedelic, thumb-tripping joyride through the American West that champions radical freedom and linguistic acrobatics.
- 12
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells · 1997
A boisterous, tear-soaked dive into the messy, unbreakable bonds of Southern womanhood and the complicated love between mothers and daughters.
