My book, "The Bean Trees"

I wrote a book about the hardest part of my life called "The Bean Trees" under my pen name, Barbara Kingsolver, and surprisingly a lot of people have read it. When ever I feel like I just can't get through a tough part of life I go back and read a part of my book. My daughter Turtle loves to hear stories from it now and then too and shouts out "Bean!" when ever she agrees with the story or likes something. I thought I might include a bit of my writing on this blog, and perhaps even Analise it for you. One of my favorite memories from the book happens to be on pages 304 and 305.

When Turtle and I went to the library together one day, we found a book on beans which was Turtle's favorite subject at the time. here is a quote that sums up our experience.

" 'there's a whole invisible system for helping out the plant that you'd never guess was there.' I loved this idea. 'It's just the same as with people. The way Edna has Virgie, and Virgie has Edna, and Sandi has Kid Centeral Station, and everybody has Mattie, and on and on.' " (305) This was when we discovered little helpful bugs on bean trees, and I compared them to all the helpful people in our life. I guess this is a sort of simile, comparing our friends to the helpful bean tree bugs.

If you haven't read my book yet, you might want to pick it up. I think it could really impact you.