Title: The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 576

Summary
The story of what happens when a Baptist preacher uproots his family of his wife and four daughters of various ages from their lives in the deep south to a small village in the Congo. The bulk of the story revolves around Nathan Price’s attempts to spread the Word to the people of the village and how things don’t work out quite as anyone expected. Told through the eyes of the four children and their mother.

Notes
Wow. What an amazing book. This was another one that was recommended to me by Wassy as a book she read in school that she really enjoyed. I had never read it so I ended up borrowing it from her and digging in.

Basically, it sucked me in and never let go. There’s so much I want to say about this right now, but too much that would be spoilers if anybody hasn’t read it so I’ll refrain from ruining anything.

I will say that Kingslover has a tremendous gift for words. The story is largely told from 4 separate points of view (4 girls ranging from  and each narrator has a distinct voice and interpretation of events which is written in such a way that you can pretty much pick out who’s narrating just by the way it’s written.

And the climax of the book? Despite knowing that what happens is going to happen from the beginning of the book…when it actually does happen it’s extremely powerful. Probably one of the absolute best pieces of writing I have ever read.

I’m typically a fast reader but I was compelled to slow down for this one and take in every word. It’s not a book to just speed through, but I wouldn’t call it a difficult read. There’s a lot of subtext to the story that’s worth picking up.

Highly, highly recommended.

Next Book
Man, I’m starting to collect quite a pile of stuff I want to read. My next book is going to be The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I also want to read World War Z by Max Brooks at some point. And then there’s the Wheel of Time series still. Plus the 6 or 7 samples I’ve collected on my Kindle to remind me of books to check out.

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