The Poisonwood Bible
Language: English
Americans Americans - Congo (Democratic Republic) Congo (Democratic Republic) Domestic fiction Families Family Fiction Fiction - General General Historical Historical - General Literary Missionaries Religious Religious - General
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: Sep 24, 1998
Description:
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.