Going from Kingsolver to Morrison is a strange transition. Morrison is so much more detailed and eratic in her writing than Kingsolver. Kingsolver is much more simplistic and to a certain extent a better communicator in her book than Morrison, but does not possess the same literary talents as Morrison as far as description and the ability to create a dramatic story are concerned.
   On an unrelated note, I would like to say that I thought "The Bean Trees" was an interesting book, and an easy "read", but it does not get the job done when it attempts to tackle political issues such as immigration. It tries to make the statement that the United States should be more accepting of immigrants bc of the poem written on the statue of liberty, and presents us with unrealistic and undetailed instances of Estevan and Esperanza's oppression(What type of things was the teacher's union working to change? Why were they from Guatemala?). On a positive note, I like the statement that it makes about family, saying that you don't have to be blood relatives to be a member of a family. I've heard the story of "how they eat in heaven" before, which makes a great statement about the nature of the good and bad people. However, the use of this fable takes away from Kingsolver's writing bc she uses a this fable, which is not her own original story, to make a statement about how people ought to live. Overall, the Bean Trees made a good statement about family but was a simple story and fell short trying to handle the secondary issues that it attmepts to deal with, making it an average to below average book.