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 mis-sion to the Belgian Congo ifi 1959. They'carry With them everything they believe they will need from homel 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 reconstruc-tion over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

Author's Note

Book One GENESIS

Book Two THE REVELATION

Book Three THE JUDGES

Book Four BEL AND THE SERPENT

Book Five EXODUS

Book Six SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN

Book Seven THE EYES IN THE TREES