![]() ![]() But the book isn't just about this mildly dysfunctional family. well, Rachel can read a bit like Hilly Holbrook. The novel focuses on the Price daughters: Leah's devoted earnestness, to Adah's backwards poetry, to Rachel's. Some of the family leaves, others stay-but they all carry Africa with them forever. What's supposed to last a year ends up lasting a lifetime. In the book, Nathan Price, a Southern Baptist missionary, drags his family on a mission to the Congo. ![]() Can you blame us? Barbara Kingsolver's novel The Poisonwood Biblewas chosen for Oprah's Book Club in June 2000 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Orange Prizes. We got a little attack of Oprah-itis there. We'd like to welcome to Shmoop, Baaaarbaraaaa Kingsoooooolllllvveeer!Īhem. She spent years researching her eighth novel, studying dozens and dozens of books about African history and the Congolese language, reading and re-reading the King James Bible front-to-back and back-to-front, thumbing through pop-culture magazines of the 1960s, and traveling to Central Africa. ![]()
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