A warmhearted and highly entertaining first novel in which a poor
but plucky Kentucky gift with a sharp tongue, soft heart and strong
spirit sets out on a cross-country trip and arrives at surprising
new meanings for love, friendship, and family - as well as
overcoming the big and little fears that inhibit lives. Taylor
Greer has always been afraid of two things: tires, one of which she
saw explode and cripple a local tobacco farmer; and pregnancy, the
common, constricting fate of her own mother and, generally, of
young girls in Pittman County, KY, where she has grown up. To avoid
the latter, Taylor, born Marietta, sets out on a set of the former
to find a new life in the West. What she doesn't count on, however,
is her flighty '55 Volkswagon temporarily "giving out" in the
Oklahoma flatlands or the ditching of a dumbstruck Indian baby in
the car while she has it fixed. By the time Taylor's car breaks
down again, and finally, in Tucson, Taylor has figured out that the
baby has been badly abused, but not how to support it or herself,
or how to lure the baby back into trust, growth, and speech. So -
she takes a job in a dreaded tire-repair shop from which her car
refuses to budge, and meets a motley collection of sanctuary
workers, refugees, other ex-Kentuckians, social workers, and
spinsters who, together, help her to bolster her courage and create
a real family for her sweet, stunned, unbidden child. A lovely,
funny, touching and humane debut, reminiscent of the work of Hilma
Wolitzer and Francine Prose. (Kirkus Reviews)
Plucky Taylor Greer grows up poor in rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away. She succeeds on both counts when she buys an old car and heads west. But midway across the country motherhood catches up with her when she becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tuscon they encounter an extraordinary array of people, and with their help, Taylor builds herself and her sweet, stunned child a life.
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