The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Name: The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Author: Carolyn Chute

by Carolyn Chute

A multigenerational family saga set in rural poverty and off-grid Maine

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Carolyn Chute

American novelist whose debut The Beans of Egypt, Maine brought the rural poor of New England to literary attention with unflinching realism. Her fiction is a passionate advocacy for the forgotten working class. She is an important and underappreciated voice in American regional fiction.

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