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The Poisonwood Bible

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The Poisonwood BibleNew York Times Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist An Oprah's Book Club Selection "Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible established Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, as one of the most

New York Times Bestseller - Pulitzer Prize Finalist - An Oprah's Book Club Selection

"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

The Poisonwood Bible established Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa.

The story is 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.

The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters--the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

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funny and heartwarming
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What an utter delight, page after page. Funny and heartwarming, it gives June a redemption arc almost as awesome as Zuko's. In the hands of bad writers, June could easily be shallow and one-note. She gets wonderful depth and richness of character development, and of course Iroh is everything fans adore.
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★★★★★ 5
Does not disappoint
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Great addition to the Avatar series that does not disappoint. Uncle Iroh is my favorite.
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Kyle
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★★★★★ 5
A fun read for fans of Uncle Iroh.
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This is an engaging book for Uncle Iroh and June the Bounty Hunter fans. There is a very noble moment in the book where Uncle Iroh apologizes to June for his inappropriate behavior in her introductory episode and the rest of the book addresses his past as a fire nation general and how he is viewed by some of the people of Ba Sing Se for his actions.
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