Plot Summary

In 1959, the Price family moves to the heart of the Congo to show the people of the village the way of the Lord. Nathan Price is the father, and a power-driven Baptist. With him are his four daughters and wife, who narrate the entire novel, filling in essential details that another could not. As time goes on, the Price family is forced face challenges that they never expected would come to them. They shortly found out that they would have to face not only a spiritual battle, but also a political battle. This along with the multiple diseases and misfortunes of Africa, which eventually lead to the death of one of the Price children. At the end of the novel, each of the narrators find their own independence, and all but one are forgiven for their acts against one another.