Sometimes giving up is the best option. In chapter four of The Bean Trees, Lou Ann Ruiz takes note of this same saying. Harboring a seven month-old child in her belly, her quiet disposition makes her a primary target of abuse- though not the kind of abuse expected from her husband of four years. On Halloween, Lou Ann returns to her humble home only to find that Angel, her husband, had left her. A few months later she gives birth and her mother and grandmother visit from Kentucky. She contemplates on if she should tell them about the sudden divorce but is afraid that they’ll chew her out for running off with Angel to Arizona in the first place. Deciding on keeping quiet about the whole situation, Lou Ann then receives a bottle filled with
