The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Toni Morrison famously said "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Unfortunately for me, Barbara Kingsolver already wrote this book, and I read it, so now I will never write it.
Like Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, this book was recommended to me by a writing teacher who knew exactly what would move me. The treatment of language and culture and religion and race and gender and family and age and desire and history and colonization and belonging and and and...
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The Poisonwood Bible
Sarah
“I've loved everything I've read by Kingsolver, but my god how did she research and write this book. Had me learning the geography and history of the Congo. Incredible, a must read. Told from alternating perspectives of the mother and four daughters moved to a small village in the Congo by their missionary father in 1959.”
Amanda
“Missionaries in the Congo. Religion, politics, race, family.”
Ellen
“Pick anything by Barbara Kingsolver and I’ll agree. The Poisonwood Bible passes the re-read test: high school me got one thing, me in my 20s yet another, and so on.”
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