The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a historical fiction novel (1998) detailing the 1959 move of Nathan Price, a rigid Baptist minister, who takes his wife and four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo. Told through alternating perspectives of the five women, the story explores the catastrophic failure of their missionary mission amidst Congolese independence, themes of colonialism, and their personal journeys of survival and guilt.
