bean trees: one

So far, I'm about two chapters in and it's pretty boring so far. I'm not a huge fan, mostly because it's unoriginal. Missy, the narrator does not enjoy her life in her dull town in kentucky. She leaves her home but tells her mother first, and the only thing she has to say about it is that she makes sure Missy is able to change the tires of a car before she leaves. She bases her new name, Taylor, off the city that she lands in when her car runs out of gas. This part is interesting, but the book altogether seems very predictable. Taylor is left with a child she later chooses to name turtle because an older woman left it with her, simply telling her to take it and not to return to the bar she was just in. She is forced to go to a motel in Oklahoma, and the kind innkeeper lets her stay there for free and Taylor helps her out around the place for money. The narrator shifts to someone from the same town where Taylor grew up named lou ann ruiz. She and her husband are having problems, and he, Angel, ends up leaving her. This is all I have managed to gather from the book, and I hope the pace picks up because so far it has not been too entertaining.