232 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1988 by Harper & Row.
Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
Subjects
- Automobile travel -- Fiction.
- Indian children -- Fiction.
- Women travelers -- Fiction.
- Young women -- Fiction.
- Friendship -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.