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  • One of the most profound novels I have ever read. I could not put it down. Beautifully written. I read this book 6-7 years ago and have yet to find a book nearly as good.

    

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  • Very good book, though I lost interest in the last 1/3rd or so. The first chunk of it was very interesting.

    

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  • The only book to give me actual goosebumps in a while. The last chapter... I totally didn't see it coming, but it made so much sense. Amazing book. Highly recommended.

    

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  • Powerful

  • A truly incredible achievement and one of the best books I've ever read.

    

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  • One of my absolute favorite books.

    

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  • x, 546 p. ; 25 cm.

    

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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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