Kingsolver’s epic is deftly woven from the voices of the women of the Price family as they are moved to the mission field of the Belgian Congo in 1950’s by their misguided and over-zealous husband/father. I read this on the heels of The Mosquito Coastand was entrenched in a deep fascination with post-colonial family sagas led by fervent, overbearing patriarchs. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.” They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. “The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
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