The Poinsonwoood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelist Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them all they need from home, but soon find that all of it, from garden seeds to Scripture, is transformed on African soil. This tale of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in post colonial Africa, is set against one of history's most dramatic political parables.


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