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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Start date: January 1, 2021

Finish date: January 28, 2021

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Jun 24, 2010 Richard Derus rated it liked it

This is one of those books I wasn't in love with, but completely understood why others would be. I dislike religious people, am appalled by the existence of missionaries, and as each awful event occurred found myself wishing that far, far worse would happen to these awful spiritual colonialists.

Now (2019) Amy Adams is making a limited series based on the book, and even started her own production company to make it. Author Kingsolver will write the screenplay with a seasoned screenwriter. ...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Krissy rated it really liked it

A passionate, abusive, and narrow minded baptist minister drags his family over to the Congo to do missionary work in 1960. They stay there because it goes to his head. This both shatters and transforms his family.

I enjoy that Kingsolver used the backdrop of what she knows (from living in Africa) to paint a vivid picture of African life. I sympathize with the women dragged into a situation they have no control over. With the backdrop of Patrice Laurent’s Marxist revolution, the CIA’s successful ...more

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