The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

Author biography

Barbara Kingsolver’s acclaimed books include The Bean Trees and the New York Times bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Her work has been translated into nineteen languages and she has won many awards, including the National Humanities Medal. She lives with her family on a farm in southwestern Virginia.