Orleanna Price, the mother of the family, narrates the introductory chapter in five of the novel's seven sections. In his hurried mispronunciation, he actually says "Jesus is poisonwood". He concludes his sermons with the Kikongo expression "Tata Jesus is bängala" with the intent of saying "Jesus is most precious". The father of the family creates his own "misprint" of the Bible. The novel's title refers to Bible errata. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.
The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a best-selling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S.
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