Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
The author tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia from Arizona in order to live a simpler life, grow their own food, and live among a community of local organic growers.
Taylor Greer hits the road wanting only to get as far away from Kentucky as possible, ending up in Arizona with a 3-year-old Cherokee girl she has inherited from a woman in a bar.
Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. Can she come to terms with motherhood and put down roots?.
