Angie (aladdin) - reviewed Individual survival and individual greatness and a whopper of a story on 12/6/2008 + 154 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

This book engulfs you from the first page. The small theme is about a missionary family and the zealot patriarch in Africa during turbulent times. But the larger themes, so well developed through the characters and their trials and tribulations, carry you much farther than the events. Each family member struggles to emerge whole and vital. The 4 girls and their mother, all exposed to the same events, choose different paths to physical, emotional and moral survival. It is one of the most original, exciting, moving and thought provoking books I have ever read, and I have read a great many.

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