A well written novel, authentic and passionate, with hints of
The Poisonwood Bible but sufficiently original to compliment to Kingsolver’s
tour de force. Orr takes a deep look at the lives of missionaries to Africa in
the late 1800’s, with a focus on the expectation and reality of life for Emma, a
newly married young American woman, eager to please God and her husband. The tensions
and complexity of missionary work in Africa are well handled, and Emma’s journey
of learning about how she might live her faith in that context makes for a good
story.
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