![]() ![]() ![]() Adah and Leah are both highly intelligent, despite the fact that Nathan doesn’t entirely approve of educated, empowered women. Because speech is difficult for her, Adah spends long chunks of time thinking of elaborate word games, many of them based around satirizing her father’s pompousness. Leah and Adah, who are in their mid-teens, are identical twins, except that Adah suffers from hemiplegia, a blood condition that leaves her unable to control one side of her body. Ruth May, who’s only five years old, is terrified by her father, and by his sermons on Jesus Christ. Nathan is a hypocritical, boorish father and husband, and his wife and children secretly resent him. The novel is narrated from the perspectives of the five Price women. Nathaniel (Nathan) aims to spread Christianity to the “unenlightened” people of the world, despite the fact that the Congolese already have their own religious traditions. ![]() The year is 1959, and a Georgian preacher named Nathaniel Price brings his entire family-his wife, Orleanna Price, and his four daughters, Ruth May, Adah, Leah, and Rachel-to the Congo. ![]()
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