The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

This is an epic novel recounting the haunting, mystifying, stunning movements of an evangelist Baptist family's mission in the Belgian Congo. Told from the perspective of the family’s four girls and mother, the novel pendulums between innocence and vindictive hatred, community and crashing calamity. This book is a grandly ambitious endeavor that lingers with the reader in perpetuity, in chilling and confounding ways.  

Paperback, 560 pages, Harper Perennial, 8” x 5 ¼”