THE BEAN TREES <i> by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper & Row: $15.95; 240 pp.) </i>
Only a Dickensian villain could fail to like this book. Kingsolver makes up a system where the outcasts take care of each other. Leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.
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