The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Toni Morrison famously said "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Unfortunately for me, Barbara Kingsolver already wrote this book, and I read it, so now I will never write it.

Like Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, this book was recommended to me by a writing teacher who knew exactly what would move me. The treatment of language and culture and religion and race and gender and family and age and desire and history and colonization and belonging and and and...