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Significant events of plot from the viewpoints of the five women are the sweeping invasion of driver ants which cause the villagers & the Prices to cross to safety on the other side of the river. The good outcome is: After a couple days of the ants' scouring the surface of everything, the village is clean of vermin. Another momentous event pregnant with a decisive shift in Orleanna's character is Ruth May's death.
— Dec 24, 2016 11:05PM
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Much happens during the Prices' faith-based mission in the Congo. The results are a female emancipation of Orleanna & her daughters & a Congolese independence from Belgium. Both arrive by a tortuous birth. The mother Orleanna walks her remaining girls through a horrific journey between Kilanga and the embassy in Leopoldville; after hostilities, the Congo is granted self-government then a coup & a lengthy tyranny.
— Dec 17, 2016 05:50AM
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Opens circa 1959 with an American Baptist missionary family from Georgia. Their insular understanding of life undergoes a shock when Reverend Price, Mrs Price, & their 4 daughters Rachel, Leah, Adah, & Ruth May move to the Belgian Congo in central Africa. As two chapter headings suggest--'the things they carried' and 'the things they learned'--their African experience surprised them, & the Reverend dug in his heels.
— Dec 04, 2016 08:43PM
