Rating  - A Retrospective
Simply wonderful reading. I could kick myself for not paying enough attention to my wife's recommendation several years ago, but she was exactly right: this is a story well worth the amount of time in your life you sacrifice to read it. In fact, it is many stories interwoven and they each grow as a vine of their own before interlacing themselves through each other. For me, most good books take quite a few pages before the hook is set but the author had me with the first paragraph.
Rating  - I loved it.
I found this book very good. A few of the reviews put me off a tad but I decided to read it anyway. It was great! I was the same age in the 60's as one of the daughters and it was unbelievable to think of leaving the comforts of home to be plucked into a remote village in Africa.
I wish I had gone to the back of the book and read the "Writing the DAB" (damed African book) by the author first. It really gives insight into her research and insights. I plan on recommending this book to my book club.
Rating - Fabulous Read
One of my favorite books of all time from one of my favorite authors. If you haven't read it yet, do.
Rating - poisonwood bible versus my missionary kid experience
Dear Ms. Kingsolver,
Your book,The Poison Wood Bible, took me into my past. I am an MK(missionary Kid)I was born in Korhogo, Ivory Coast,(then French West) West Africa in 1948. I am a third world kid, neither African nor American in culture.
Your book reveals the dogmatism, religious fervor, the western mindset of the 'great' missionary movement. It uncovers the reasons for being, that exist in many sectors of mission denominations, namely....to "save the lost at any cost,"(My phrase.)
My parents went to Africa in the late 40's. My twin and I were born just 8 weeks after their arrival, poor Mom!
As we grew to school age, we were shipped to boarding school in Africa, to Guinee(then a republic)3000 miles away. We stayed in that place of horrors for 9 plus months out of each year, four years straight. Each four year term was interrupted by a one year stint in the USA, for fund raising at supporting churches.
We grew up in boarding school starting at 6 years of age.
The dialogue of each family member in your book, from mother to each child,is striking. I see and remember things I had forgotten with each chapter. This book resonates with my life in personal ways.
I am writing my own story.I am tying together the issues of abuse and their impact not only in my life and the lives of an army of missionary kids who are now grown, to the Native American boarding school experience. There is linkage between our histories.
You have brought the glory and terror of living in a foreign country for years at a time, to the fore front of my mind.
Thank you!
Nyinge (third daughter)aka Vivian Harvey
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