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Oct 25, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A departure from her more familiar Southwest settings, Kingsolver takes us to the Africa of 1959 which we see through the eyes of four missionary daughters and their mother. Each voice is clear and consistent with its unique look at daily survival in a remote village in the Congo: the jungle, the people, beliefs, traditions, sowing and reaping and the drums bringing politics from beyond their small world. The reader is mesmerized by the enormous effect over the next decades of their brief years together in the overwhelming presence that is Africa.