the bean trees notes

6;In this chapter, Taylor describes how she goes to work for Mattie, the owner of Jesus Is Lord Used Tires. In this excerpt, Taylor tells Mattie about her overwhelming fear of exploding tires, and Mattie offers her a rational way to deal with it. chapter 7 ;Until this scene, which occurs more than a third of the way into the story, Turtle (the 3-year-old Taylor has taken responsibility for) has been a silent character, best known …

…by the time she pulls up on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, at an auto repair shop called Jesus Is Lord Used Tires, she has reluctantly acquired a three-year-old companion named Turtle. What follows -- as Taylor meets the human condition head-on -- is at the heart of this memorable novel about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** the book "the bean trees"