Sojourners, March 1st, 1999
The Poisonwood Bible. By Barbara Kingsolver. HarperFlamingo, 1998.
IGNORANCE AND GRACE
Lessons from The Poisonwood Bible.
Barbara Kingsolver is a high-energy novelist, at once funny and serious. The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven all engage characters seriously with a real world beyond their own sensibilities and domestic affairs. Her spirited book of essays, High Tide in Tucson, combines the experience of parenting, her biological training, and observations about social policy. These essays presage but do not predict The Poisonwood Bible, a big, dark, comic novel in which ...
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