The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it, from garden seeds to Scripture, is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction …
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…Betty Crocker in the Congo." The Poisonwood Bible is one of the best novels I have ever read. The novel kept me excited and motivated through out the whole week it took me to read thi! s fairly thick bookl, which should tell you how interesting I felt it was. I fully recommend anyone who has any interest in religion, politics, race, sin and redemption to read this novel. Bibliography The PoisonWood Bible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**