Barbara kingsolver biography poison wood bible

novel by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible (), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in move from the U.S.

state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.

The novel's title refers to Bible errata. The father of the family creates his own "misprint" of the Bible. He concludes his sermons with the Kikongo expression "Tata Jesus is bängala" with the intent of saying "Jesus is most precious".

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In his hurried mispronunciation, he actually says "Jesus is poisonwood".

Plot

Orleanna Price, the mother of the family, narrates the introductory chapter in five of the novel's seven sections. The narrative then alternates among the four daughters, with a slight preference for the voice of the most conflicted one, Leah.^{[original research?]} The four girls increasingly mature and develop differently as each adapts to African village life and the politic