March’s Arroyo Book Club Pick…

The Arroyo Book Club will be reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver for our March meeting.  This story follows an evangelist minister, his wife, and their four daughters to the Congo in the late 1950s.  Library Journal provides the following description of the book:

This intense family drama is set in an Africa on the verge of independence and upheaval. In 1959, evangelical preacher Nathan Price moves his wife and four daughters from Georgia to a village in the Belgian Congo, later Zaire. Their dysfunction and cultural arrogance proves disastrous as the family is nearly destroyed by war, Nathan's tyranny, and Africa itself. Told in the voices of the mother and daughters, the novel spans 30 years as the women seek to understand each other and the continent that tore them apart. Kingsolver has a keen understanding of the inevitable, often violent clashes between white and indigenous cultures, yet she lets the women tell their own stories without being judgmental.

Stop by the library for a copy of the book and make plans to join us in discussion on March 28 at 3:00