![]() ![]() I don’t know why his perspective is excluded in that way, but my guess is it’s a kind of literary affirmative action. ![]() ![]() Never the father-we don’t get to see him from the inside. Each chapter is written in first person as if by either the mother or one of the four daughters. The action is presented chronologically, but the perspective is constantly changing. Then there is a much younger daughter who is only 4 or 5 when they leave for Africa. The twins are a little more intellectual than their older daughter, especially the handicapped one, who walks with a limp and-by choice-rarely talks. Three of the daughters are teenagers-a very blonde one more concerned than the others with conventionality and a successful social life, and slightly younger twins. The family consists of a fundamentalist preacher father who thoroughly dominates the lives of the others, a traditional housewife mother, and four daughters. The Poisonwood Bible is a novel much praised by critics, about a missionary family that relocates to a village in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) on the eve of independence. ![]()
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