‘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 over the course of
three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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