The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible is about a family who move to the Congo from America as missionaries, and about everything that can go wrong when you are in another country and faced with another culture. The book is tragic because the father has the best intentions but he’s too closed-minded and set in his American ways.
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