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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Masterful. Wow. 

“Rachel informs me I’ve had my brains washed by a communist plot. She’s exactly right. I’ve been won to the side of school teachers and nurses, and lost all allegiance to plastic explosives. No homeland I can claim as mine would blow up a struggling, distant country’s hydroelectric dams and water pipes, inventing darkness and dysentery in the service of its ideals, and bury mines in every Angolan road that connected food to a hungry child.”