Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

In 1959, Baptist minister Nathan Price and his family—his wife and four daughters—arrive in the Belgian Congo carrying everything they believe will save a nation: garden seeds, Scripture, missionary zeal, and the certainties of American faith. They arrive as saviors. They will leave transformed, broken, and enlightened in ways they never anticipated.

What begins as a mission spirals into tragedy as the Price family's carefully packed belongings and deeply held beliefs become grotesquely transformed on African soil. The garden seeds wither. The Scriptures prove hollow. The family fractures under the weight of their own ignorance, the country's political upheaval, and the unbridgeable gulf between their intentions and the devastating realities they encounter. Told through the voices of the wife and four daughters, The Poisonwood Bible is an epic of remarkable reconstruction—how a family survives catastrophe, how love persists through betrayal and loss, and how individuals are remade by the places and people they sought to change.

At 640 pages, Barbara Kingsolver's masterpiece is a

The Poisonwood Bible: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

In 1959, Baptist minister Nathan Price and his family—his wife and four daughters—arrive in the Belgian Congo carrying everything they believe will save a nation: garden seeds, Scripture, missionary zeal, and the certainties of American faith. They arrive as saviors. They will leave transformed, broken, and enlightened in ways they never anticipated.

What begins as a mission spirals into tragedy as the Price family's carefully packed belongings and deeply held beliefs beco

sweeping, suspenseful novel that has captivated millions of readers worldwide. An international bestseller, a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, and a modern classic that endures with each rereading, The Poisonwood Bible asks unflinching questions about power, faith, colonialism, and redemption—and offers no easy answers. Four million copies sold. Four million lives changed.