The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price a fierce, 'evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mis-sion to the Belgian Congo ifi 1959. They'carry With them everything they believe they will need from homel but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruc-tion over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.