The bestselling debut novel by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women s Prize for Fiction 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 guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tucson they encounter an extraordinary array of people, and with their help Taylor builds herself an her sweet, stunned child a life. Compelling and very funny Daily Telegraph Remarkable New York Times An astonishing literary debut Cosmopolitan The work of a visionary... It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling Los Angeles Times
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(Maryland, 1955) Criada en una zona rural de Kentucky (Estados Unidos), se licenció en Biología en 1977. Tras recorrer Europa durante dos años, regresó a Estados Unidos y se instaló en Arizona, donde empezó a trabajar como redactora de informes técnicos. Poco después empezó a escribir novelas sobre las cuestiones que le preocupaban, como los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente. Desde que publicó su primera novela en 1988, Árboles de judías, ha escrito Praderas en el cielo, Los sueños de los animales (verticales de bolsillo), Verano pródigo y la exitosa La Biblia envenenada (verticales de bolsillo).