The Posionwood Bible

• the Price family flies to Africa
• they go to a small village called Kilanga
• there for a religious mission
• Nathan Price, the father, is the new minister of the village
• they underestimate what they needed
• Adah, being handicapped, fits in with the natives
• Rachel hates it because she thinks of herself as a beauty queen who doesn't like to work for anything
• Leah believes in God's will and takes the bad things as God saying "you aren't doing it right"
• Ruth May expends all of her energy exploring the surrounding jungle
• Nathan tries to baptize the people many times but they refuse
• after awhile Mama Tataba leaves telling him that they are afraid of the river because of a recent crocodile attack
• with threat of communist take over Belgium pulls out of Congo and lets them set up their own government
• Mrs. Price begs to leave for the safety of her daughters
• Mr. Price refuses to let them leave, believing it is just a challenge from God
• Ruth May breaks and arm climbing a tree
• Anatole tells Mr. Price that the villagers don't want to leave their traditions for Christianity
• Anatole brings Pascal to help the Price family
• Pascal helps the girls learn African culture
• Leah and Pascal become great friends
• Ruth May get Malaria
• Leah gets lessons from Anatole
• Ruth May survives but isn't the same
• Leah falls in love with Anatole
• Ruth May is bitten by a snake and dies
• Mrs. Price and the remaining daughters leave Mr. Price to go home
• They are forced to walk through the jungle
• Leah gets malaria and is left at Anatole's family's house
• Rachel tells Mr. Axelroot to fly her out of there and she'll marry him
• Leah marries Anatole
• Adah and Mrs. Price go home
• Rachel moves on from marriage to marriage until she obtains a vast hotel company in Africa
• Leah lives the African way with Anatole and their four kids
• Adah overcomes her disabilities and goes to an university, where she studies African diseases for cures
• Mrs. Price falls to depression due to the guilt of Ruth May's death
• Ruth May watches over her sisters as they grow up and her mom grows old, describing life and death