The Poisonwood Bible | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:15:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg The Poisonwood Bible | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver https://anitamathias.com/2011/10/21/the-poisonwood-bible-by-barbara-kingsolver/ Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:33:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/10/21/the-poisonwood-bible-by-barbara-kingsolver/   Our family listened to Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible on tape on our summer holiday, and were engrossed by it. It’s the story of an American Baptist family, the Prices, who go out to the Congo to convert “the heathen.” The father, Nathan, simple-minded and fanatical, is a prototypical “ugly American,” who scarily conflates the […]

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