I related more to Lou Ann than Taylor, though. She’s from poor Kentucky and having family from Kentucky and having lived in Southern Indiana, I really related to this and could hear friends and family who spoke in the cadence I imagined Taylor speaking in and using phrases that made her character stand out. She narrates about 90% of the book and she has a voice that I found really engrossing. It’s hard to have a favorite character other than Taylor. These flaws are so natural, so real, and they make the characters lovable. Taylor fell in love, but with a married man. Mattie was so determined to do the right thing that she broke the law to do it. She was so concerned about small things that shouldn’t have mattered but meant the world to her. Lou Ann was loving and maternal yet superficial to a flaw. I loved how the characters were so flawed and so perfect at the same time. It was hard to understand why Taylor did some of the things she did (more on this coming in my Book Club Reflection), but she was still lovable. I read it super quick and fell in love with so many of the characters. I read The Poisonwood Bible for the first time in high school and enjoyed it, but when I re-read it last year I struggled to get through it. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.
By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away.
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