The Beans of Egypt, Maine
By Carolyn Chute

In Egypt, Maine, it's pretty hard to turn over a log without unearthing a Bean; they're just everwhere. For the Beans have always been there. Almost everybody's related to them, some more closely than you might wish. It's brith and copulation and death - and then more of the same.

Earlene Pomerleau isn't a Bean; no, probably not, but she's square in the middle of the swarming hive. There's Cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler, who can't quite keep himself out of jail; Aunt Roberta, who is in a perpetual state of pregnancy and encirclement by as nasty a litter of no-neck monsters as you have run across since Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and Beal, who is sweet and gently but violent in defeat.

Softbound book in excellent condition.