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* TheRez: Where Taylor picks up Turtle, and eventually adopts her from.
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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Estevan to Taylor, justified given that he's an English teacher.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Lou Ann's husband got a replacement foot after an accident. He than proceeds to {{wangst}} about it.
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* ArtificialLimbs: Lou Ann's husband got a replacement foot after an accident. He than then proceeds to {{wangst}} about it.
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* HandyHelper: Virgie to Edna, who is blind.
* IncestIsRelative: Turtle was given to Taylor by a well-meaning relative because two-year-old Turtle's uncle was beating her... and from the looks of the bruises, probably raping her as well.
* IncestIsRelative: Turtle was given to Taylor by a well-meaning relative because two-year-old Turtle's uncle was beating her... and from the looks of the bruises, probably raping her as well.
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* IncestIsRelative: Turtle was given to Taylor by a well-meaning relative because two-year-old Turtle's uncle was beating her... and from the looks of the bruises, probably raping her as well.
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* SexyPriest: Father William
* SmallTownBoredom: The driving force of this novel.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Edna and Virgie.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Estevan and Taylor. It goes nowhere because he's still devoted to his wife.
* WrenchWench: Mattie.
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* AbusiveParents: Turtle's.
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* AbusiveParents: Turtle's. When your mother is desperate enough to leave you in a car with a stranger, you know it's bad.
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* HandyHelper: Virgie to Enda, whose Edna, who is blind.
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* MandatoryMotherhood: Taylor escapes from her small town to avoid becoming pregnant....and then has a child left in her car.
* PromotionToParent: Taylor tries to give Turtle off to her other friends, but eventually admits that she's decided to raise her.
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* TheRezTheRez: Where Taylor picks up Turtle, and eventually adopts her from.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Estevan and Taylor.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Estevan and Taylor. It goes nowhere because he's still devoted to his wife.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The revelation that Turtle is an underdeveloped 3-year-old rather than the 1.5-year-old everyone assumed her to be occurs a little more than halfway through the novel, and comes as a surprise to both the characters and the reader. Unless, of course, the reader read the summary on the back cover, which describes Turtle as a 3-year-old.
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* CandyStriper: Taylor mentions that many of the girls in her Kentucky hometown became Candy Stripers in high school as an extracurricular activity.
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A novel by Barbara Kingsolver about a small town girl named Taylor Greer who decides to drive [[TheAllegedCar her car]] [[SmallTownBoredom as far as it'll take her and settle down wherever it ends up breaking]]. Along the way she travels meets a Guatemalan couple and after traveling through an Indian reserve, she [[PromotionToParent gets saddled with the toddler Turtle]]. The rest of the novel deals with the relationships between her and the people in her new town as well as the details of this unexpected motherhood.
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A novel by Barbara Kingsolver about a small town girl named Taylor Greer who decides to drive [[TheAllegedCar her car]] [[SmallTownBoredom as far as it'll take her and settle down wherever it ends up breaking]]. Along the way she travels she meets a Guatemalan couple and after traveling through an Indian reserve, she [[PromotionToParent gets saddled with the toddler Turtle]]. The rest of the novel deals with the relationships between her and the people in her new town as well as the details of this unexpected motherhood.
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The novel eventually spawned a sequel: PigsInHeaven.
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The novel eventually spawned a sequel: PigsInHeaven.Literature/PigsInHeaven.
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A novel by Barbara Kingsolver about a small town girl named Taylor Greer who decides to drive [[TheAllegedCar her car]] [[SmallTownBoredom as far as it'll take her and settle down wherever it ends up breaking]]. Along the way she travels meets a Guatemalan couple and after traveling through an Indian reserve, she [[PromotionToParent gets saddled with the toddler Turtle]]. The rest of the novel deals with the relationships between her and the people in her new town as well as the details of this unexpected motherhood.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Turtle's.
* ArtificialLimbs: Lou Ann's husband got a replacement foot after an accident. He than proceeds to {{wangst}} about it.
* TheAllegedCar: Taylor drives an old junker, and her plan is to drive it until it breaks down.
* DisappearedDad: Both Lou Ann and Taylor have them: Lou Ann's is dead, and Taylor's was never there in the first place.
* {{Foil}}: Taylor and Lou Ann are this to each other, with Lou Ann being timid and sensitive and Taylor being brash and confident. They are also...
** TomboyAndGirlyGirl
* HandyHelper: Virgie to Enda, whose blind.
* IncestIsRelative: Turtle was given to Taylor by a well-meaning relative because two-year-old Turtle's uncle was beating her... and from the looks of the bruises, probably raping her as well.
* LadyInRed: Edna
* MandatoryMotherhood
* PromotionToParent
* SexyPriest: Father William
* SmallTownBoredom: The driving force of this novel.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Estevan to Taylor, justified given that he's an English teacher.
* TeenPregnancy: The fate of most of the girls in Taylor's hometown. Taylor escapes this, [[MandatoryMotherhood only to get another person's toddler dumped onto her lap as soon as she leaves her hometown]].
* TheRez
* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Estevan and Esperanza introducing themselves as "Steven" and "Hope" to potentially avoid prejudice.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Edna and Virgie.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Estevan and Taylor.
* WrenchWench: Mattie.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Taylor is quite nervous around tires after seeing a man thrown into the air by an exploding tractor tire as a child. Naturally, the only place she can find a job is Jesus Is Lord Used Tires.
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A novel by Barbara Kingsolver about a small town girl named Taylor Greer who decides to drive [[TheAllegedCar her car]] [[SmallTownBoredom as far as it'll take her and settle down wherever it ends up breaking]]. Along the way she travels meets a Guatemalan couple and after traveling through an Indian reserve, she [[PromotionToParent gets saddled with the toddler Turtle]]. The rest of the novel deals with the relationships between her and the people in her new town as well as the details of this unexpected motherhood.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Turtle's.
* ArtificialLimbs: Lou Ann's husband got a replacement foot after an accident. He than proceeds to {{wangst}} about it.
* TheAllegedCar: Taylor drives an old junker, and her plan is to drive it until it breaks down.
* DisappearedDad: Both Lou Ann and Taylor have them: Lou Ann's is dead, and Taylor's was never there in the first place.
* {{Foil}}: Taylor and Lou Ann are this to each other, with Lou Ann being timid and sensitive and Taylor being brash and confident. They are also...
** TomboyAndGirlyGirl
* HandyHelper: Virgie to Enda, whose blind.
* IncestIsRelative: Turtle was given to Taylor by a well-meaning relative because two-year-old Turtle's uncle was beating her... and from the looks of the bruises, probably raping her as well.
* LadyInRed: Edna
* MandatoryMotherhood
* PromotionToParent
* SexyPriest: Father William
* SmallTownBoredom: The driving force of this novel.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Estevan to Taylor, justified given that he's an English teacher.
* TeenPregnancy: The fate of most of the girls in Taylor's hometown. Taylor escapes this, [[MandatoryMotherhood only to get another person's toddler dumped onto her lap as soon as she leaves her hometown]].
* TheRez
* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Estevan and Esperanza introducing themselves as "Steven" and "Hope" to potentially avoid prejudice.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Edna and Virgie.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Estevan and Taylor.
* WrenchWench: Mattie.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Taylor is quite nervous around tires after seeing a man thrown into the air by an exploding tractor tire as a child. Naturally, the only place she can find a job is Jesus Is Lord Used Tires.
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