This realization ruins his plan to help the villagers by providing food and education about agriculture. They are unable to plant their North American vegetables in Africa because there aren’t any African plants that can pollinate them. The first sign is when Nathan’s demonstration garden fails, because of pollinators and crocodiles. It doesn’t take long for the family to realize that they have made a mistake. The mother passively accepts everything her husband tells her one daughter resents being separated from normal teenage life another is excited but also frightened one is enthusiastic because she shares her father’s religious beliefs and another feels cynical detachment toward everything that happens to them there. From the outset, they have different attitudes about what’s happening. The five women in this novel narrate it from their separate points of view. He wanted to save the souls of its inhabitants. In 1959, a Baptist minister named Nathan Price took his wife and four daughters to the Congo.
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