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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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I loved this book!!! Kingsolver has a way with tone, there were 6 distinct vantages and without reading the title the reader could tell who's side of the story we were reading because her tone was so well done. I also really enjoyed how she would have one character leave off and the next pick up pretty close to where the previous left the story. It was an interesting blend and almost as if she was sewing the story (chronologically). This book is very quotable. She was very researched on the cust
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Barbara Kingsolver is an American author who did an incredible amount of homework about the Congo in the 1960's in order to create this unforgettable story of a family in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the consequences of their decisions.
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An interesting look at a family's religious life as missionaries in Africa and how the zealotry of the father leads to disaster. Gripping and revelatory.
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Olympia
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Diane
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it was amazing
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