Description

The Poisonwood Bible is just 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 together everything they believe they'll need at home, but soon discover that all it—from yard vegetables to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. Below is just a suspenseful epic of 1 family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction within the span of three decades in postcolonial Africa.