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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
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
This is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. I.E. colonialism can be thought to be a practice and imperialism as the idea driving the practice. Obviously the ramifications are evident throughout the story - but the story also ingeniously tells the beautiful story of a family and each member.
I just finished reading The Poisonwood Bible and am dazed. The book just kept hitting me over the head all t ...more
I just finished reading The Poisonwood Bible and am dazed. The book just kept hitting me over the head all t ...more
Yet another book I probably would not have read on my own, if not for it being a book club read.
This book was good yet it seemed to disturb me in so many ways.
This story is told from the voices of the Price children. The father Nathan Price took a mission to the Congo in 1959(though against the orders of many). The family tried to pack everything they thought the would need and headed to a small remote village to spread the word of god.
Nathan Price seen from all their eyes, seemed to be a angry ...more
This book was good yet it seemed to disturb me in so many ways.
This story is told from the voices of the Price children. The father Nathan Price took a mission to the Congo in 1959(though against the orders of many). The family tried to pack everything they thought the would need and headed to a small remote village to spread the word of god.
Nathan Price seen from all their eyes, seemed to be a angry ...more
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