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This is an amazing story. Fiction with a bibliography, what's not to love! A Southern preacher with a major Messiah-complex drags his family to Africa in the late 1950's. His 4 daughters and their mother tell their story, and the sections each one narrates are told in her unique "voice" . I always admire how a gifted writer can speak in a completely different way for different characters, similar to the way a talented actor is completely different in each role. I also love that this book focuses
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not a favorite by a long shot.
The story of a preacher from the USA who takes his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959.
The preacher is an awful control freak and the wife belittled by him. The chapters are tol din turn by the female members of the family. Of course they do not understand the culture or the local people and the stubborn religious attitude of Nathan Price the preacher makes it worse.
Of course everything proceeds to spiral downwards and it all falls apart.
An interesting piece of writing where the author ...more
The preacher is an awful control freak and the wife belittled by him. The chapters are tol din turn by the female members of the family. Of course they do not understand the culture or the local people and the stubborn religious attitude of Nathan Price the preacher makes it worse.
Of course everything proceeds to spiral downwards and it all falls apart.
An interesting piece of writing where the author ...more
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