The Poisonwood Bible Essay Examples

Barbara Kingsolver

Domestic fiction, Historical fiction

1998

United States

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. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.

Nathan Price, Orleanna Price, Rachel Price, Leah Price, Adah Price

Vision, Light and Dark, Language as Revelatory,

Methuselah, the Parrot, The Demonstration Garden, The Poisonwood Tree