I recently recommended The Poisonwood Bible as an adult summer reading challenge. I love it when I stumble onto books that I otherwise would not pay attention to, because I learn things I never would have considered interesting otherwise. Driver ants – really? What would ever possess me to read up on Driver Ants . […]
Adult Summer Reading: The Poisonwood Bible – a Review
“The Poisonwood Bible” was written by Barbara Kingsley. It is a fictional account of a family’s missionary experience in The Congo, Africa, beginning in 1960. The family consists of a minister father, mother, and 4 daughters. Father has ghosts from his past, which cause him to be too zealous in his expectations of the Congolese […]