I suppose you could say I had some part in choosing this name, but there was enough of destiny in it to satisfy me." I kept my fingers crossed through Sidney, Sadorus, Cerro Gordo, Decatur, and Blue Mound, and coasted into Taylorville on the fumes. "I came pretty close to being named after Homer, Illinois, but kept pushing it. wherever she may be when her petrol tank runs dry. I didn't have any special name in mind, but just wanted a change.’ Marietta decides she will call herself after the first place she has to stop i.e. She works hard and buys herself a car so she can escape, then decides to rename herself: ‘I wasn't crazy about anything I had been called up to that point in life, and this seemed like the time to make a clean break. It tells the story of a young woman named Marietta Greer who grows up poor in rural Kentucky. I found it on the shelves of the yacht in which we were sailing around the Greek islands this summer (I know! Lucky me!) The Poisonwood Bible is one of my favourite books, but I have never read this debut novel by Barbara Kingsolver.
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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