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Title: Sequel to 'The Bean Trees'
Review: This book is a sequel to 'The Bean Trees'. It is a good book, not great, but satisfying.Turtle is a young girl and the Cherokee Nation finds out that she's been adopted il-legally by Taylor.The book politicizes about communal/tribal love and rights vs. the rights of adoptiveparents or families of choice. Who decides what is best for a child or shat are the mostimportant values? At one point, the age-old 'Story of Solomon' is brought in.I enjoyed this novel but not as much as 'The Bean Trees'. Taylor, Turtle, Alice and Jaxare well characterized. Annawake, the politicized Cherokee attorney, is never fullydeveloped. She is more a symbol than a person I could empathize with or feel likeI actually knew.
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