The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver, Dean Robertson, Aurora Ballester Gasso · first published 1998
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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. 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. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author
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…shit. Ragged Trousered Philanthropist - restored my empathy and created a depth of understanding that has not left me in the 25 years since I read it. (I recommend the second and not the first). The Poisonwood Bible - turned me into a (troubled) atheist and (untroubled) feminist.
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