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Resources
for The Bean Trees
Reading
Guide for The Bean Trees
Includes brief plot summary, Kingsolver on The Bean
Trees, and several discussion questions. Links
to HarperCollins Publishers Web site.
Symbolism
of The Bean Trees
The bean trees in the novel are generally considered
to be wisteria, whose flowers turn into pods that resemble
bean pods. Links to the United States Department of
Agriculture Plants Database, where users may view photos
and characteristics of the wisteria. "The wisteria
vines on their own would just barely get by, is how
I explained it to Turtle, but put them together with
rhizobia and they make miracles." -Taylor Greer
in The Bean Trees
Recommended Reading
 Buried
Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatamala by
Victoria Sanford (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Provides background information on the human rights
struggle in Guatamala as narrated by Estevan and Esperanza's
troubles during the 1970s and 1980s in the The Bean
Trees.
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