Category: Book The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible is a heavy book to read. It’s about being overzealous and being a careful parent, about culture clash and hard choices. When you read it to the end you’ll understand that the novel deserves its name from first to last letter. In 1959 a Baptist priest named Nathan Price assigns himself to…

Race in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible Set in the African Congo during the late 1950s through the 1980s, Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, tells the story of the struggles of the Price family and the high price of independence for the African nation itself. Center to the story and the conflict between the…