805 Reads: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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.

Awards:

Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1999), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1999), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult (2000), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1999), Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Audio Fiction - Unabridged (1999), Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (2000), Puddly Award for Novel (2001), Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2000)