confront and overcome. This essay is going to discuss Taylor's

trials and tribulations within the novel.

Taylor (born Marietta) grew up in Pittman, Kentucky, a small

rural town where families "had kids just about as fast as they could

fall down the well and drown" and a boy with a job as a gas-meter

man was considered a "high-class catch." She needs to get out to

get ahead and to avoid pregnancy. She succeeds on both accounts

when she buys a '55 Volkswagen and heads west. She leaves

almost everything behind, including her name (Taylor is the name she

adopts when she runs out of gas in Taylorville, Illinois). When her

steering fails somewhere in central Oklahoma, in a country owned by

the Cherokee nation, she stops for repairs at a roadside service

station. A Cherokee woman looks at Taylor and sees a chance for

her dead sister's child to escape a life of abuse and alcoholism. She

hands the child over to Taylor and disappears. Taylor's journey of

self-discovery suddenly becomes a transition into a relationsh

refugees who have survived tragedies she can not imagine, all reveal

where she is not the most important person.

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Approximate Word count = 786
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)