The Poisonwood Bible

Short Review: A 1960s Southern Baptist family moves to the Congo to be missionaries. Their lives are forever changed. This is a great book to look at cross cultural difficulties. It gives some context to the ways that the US have been inappropriately involved in Africa, but that is not the focus of the book. Lots of rich lyrical language. It started a bit slow and felt like it was going to be almost caricature of a bad missionary family. But the book picked up and really was richer than I had expected. A book I highly recommend.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/poisonwood-bible/