Why Is It Called The Bean Trees? The Bean Trees is a novel about a girl coming of age, growing up, and struggling to make a life for herself. She has to deal with surviving alone for the first time, and with being responsible for someone else’s life. She learns to overcome her fear of putting air in a tire and she learns about love. She attains a daughter, and takes care of her. The Bean Trees is not a story about bean trees. If anything, The Bean Trees is about discovering the unexpected. Taylor grew up in rural Kentucky. All she ever wanted was to avoid pregnancy. Her dream was to be the one from her clique to get out of Kentucky, be different an