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. 'The Poinsonwood Bible' is the story of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. They carry with them all 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
Barbara Kingsolver is a consistently good author and I await each new book with bated breath. Poisonwood Bible is a story about an American missionary family who move to Africa in the late 1950s. Barbara has been quoted as saying she spent thirty years waiting for the wisdom and maturity to dare to write this book and, all I can say is, it was worth the wait. Read and enjoy, then delve into her other novels and short stories. Unputdownable!
Denise, 12/12/2008
