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Jan 04, 2016
Anne ✨ Finds Joy
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Started this many years ago, don't even remember why I didn't finish but i think it might have been slow for me, but i might want to attempt again someday.
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Nathan Price is a Baptist missionary moving to the Congo along with his wife and daughters.
The Price family's story is set against the political backdrop of a country gaining its independence from Belgium. Nathan’s religious fervor moves to such a level of fanaticism that he refuses to move his family back to America and vows to stay in the Congo until he believes God’s work there is done.
Orleanna and her four daughters are the narrators, and each infuses her own personality and point of view in ...more
The Price family's story is set against the political backdrop of a country gaining its independence from Belgium. Nathan’s religious fervor moves to such a level of fanaticism that he refuses to move his family back to America and vows to stay in the Congo until he believes God’s work there is done.
Orleanna and her four daughters are the narrators, and each infuses her own personality and point of view in ...more
I had no expectations when I picked up this book...knew nothing about it and had never read any of Kingsolver's other works. So, it was a pleasant surprise to read this saga of an American family in the Congo, colonial and post-colonial. The novel excellently presents itself in the separate voices of the mother and three daughters...all with separate personalities. Although there is a lot to chew on here, my take on the moral is that one needs to seek balance...or the world will enact balance wh
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Aug 24, 2016
XiangYu
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Mande
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Kristie
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Nina
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Jaret
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