1. poisonwood bible
... 's religion is a clear example of what faith should be, undying regardless of the difficulties that may stem from that choice. Adah, damaged since birth and unable (or unwilling) to speak, records her observations of her family with a shrewd poetic intelligence; she is a verbal gymnast, a dedicated diarist, and a profound skeptic. Adah feels somewhat jealous, and irritated with her twin sister, Leah, as ... . "Oh, I can easily imagine the fetal mishap," she says, "we were inside the womb together dum-de-dum when Leah suddenly turned and declared, Adah you are just too slow. I am taking al...
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