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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, is the epic story of the Price Family who, in 1959, relocated from Jim Crow-era Georgia to the Belgian Congo. The Price family is led and ruled by the fiery Baptist, Nathan Price, who brings his white-brand, fire-and-brimstone message of salvation to a tiny, improverished village in the deep jungles of Post-colonial Africa. With him, is his deferential wife and their four young, impressionable daughters. What begins as a test of faith and a lesson in humility, stretches into decades of small joys and devastating losses during the tumultuous years between 1960 and 1980, while Africa is ravaged by foreign influence and torn apart by the native cry for freedom. These years are a confused tapestry of violence, betrayal, and the unapologetic rape of an entire nation.
Barbara Kingsolver has written a poetic masterpiece, part song to the majesty of Africa and part poem to the human spirit, and our ability to love beyond color or class if we allow ourselves to expand enough. It is part colorful portrait of a wildly beautiful and sacred landscape that has, since its very creation, been coveted and abused by a world eager to exploit it. It is a testament to the lies humans tell themselves to make life and self more palatable. It is the journey to find surrender in your own forgiveness.
Though a long and heavy book, it is impossible not to invest a part of your heart in the lives and journeys of the women of the Price family. This book follows each of them as they tell the story of their individual fears, their naked joys, and their desperate path to their own redemption to discover a version of themselves and their past that they can reconcile to create a peaceful whole. This book should alter your perception of our place in this world and give you pause to consider your impact and influence within it and without. This book cries out to its readers to think, contemplate, discover.
Barbara Kingsolver has written a poetic masterpiece, part song to the majesty of Africa and part poem to the human spirit, and our ability to love beyond color or class if we allow ourselves to expand enough. It is part colorful portrait of a wildly beautiful and sacred landscape that has, since its very creation, been coveted and abused by a world eager to exploit it. It is a testament to the lies humans tell themselves to make life and self more palatable. It is the journey to find surrender in your own forgiveness.
Though a long and heavy book, it is impossible not to invest a part of your heart in the lives and journeys of the women of the Price family. This book follows each of them as they tell the story of their individual fears, their naked joys, and their desperate path to their own redemption to discover a version of themselves and their past that they can reconcile to create a peaceful whole. This book should alter your perception of our place in this world and give you pause to consider your impact and influence within it and without. This book cries out to its readers to think, contemplate, discover.