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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

New York Times The Poisonwood Bible

Podcasts 6
Quotes 12
The Ezra Klein Show

Klein mentioned this earlier work as part of Kingsolver's acclaimed bibliography.

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She wrote The Bean Trees, she wrote The Poisonwood Bible, she has won all kinds of prizes.

— Episode: Best Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Ru...

Episode: Best Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipa...

Klein mentioned this earlier work as part of Kingsolver's acclaimed bibliography.

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She wrote The Bean Trees, she wrote The Poisonwood Bible, she has won all kinds of prizes.

Episode: Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It A...

Kingsolver's acclaimed novel was cited alongside her other works.

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She wrote The Bean Trees, she wrote The Poisonwood Bible.

Office Ladies

Anna Coates, the key assistant location manager, mentioned this book as her favourite. It is about four sisters from Africa.

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Anna Coates, and her favorite book is The Poisonwood Bible. It's about four sisters from Africa.

— Episode: New Guys

Episode: New Guys

Anna Coates, the key assistant location manager, mentioned this book as her favourite. It is about four sisters from Africa.

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Anna Coates, and her favorite book is The Poisonwood Bible. It's about four sisters from Africa.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

The host listed The Poisonwood Bible as one of Barbara Kingsolver's notable works.

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The Poisonwood Bible, Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, Flight Behavior.

— Episode: Barbara Kingsolver (author of Demon Copp...

Episode: Barbara Kingsolver (author of Demon Copperhead)

The host listed The Poisonwood Bible as one of Barbara Kingsolver's notable works.

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The Poisonwood Bible, Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, Flight Behavior.

Episode: Barbara Kingsolver (author of Demon Copperhead)

The novel was listed among Kingsolver's notable works and later highlighted as a book that received a lot of attention after its 1998 release.

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The Poisonwood Bible, Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, Flight Behavior. And I encourage everyone to go get Demon Copperhead.

In 98, you write or is released, the Poisonwood Bible. And that one gets a ton of attention.

Watch What Crappens

Sonia's temporary living situation, surrounded by plastic drapes, was compared to the setting of this book, suggesting a quarantined or isolated state.

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It's like the poisonwood Bible or whatever.

— Episode: #3140 Crappens Rewind: RHONY: Escape fr...

Episode: #3140 Crappens Rewind: RHONY: Escape from Lu-catr...

Sonia's temporary living situation, surrounded by plastic drapes, was compared to the setting of this book, suggesting a quarantined or isolated state.

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It's like the poisonwood Bible or whatever.

On Being with Krista Tippett

The book was described as one of the speaker's favorite books. A specific passage from the book, focusing on Ada Price's perspective on the natural world in Africa, was read and discussed.

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As a teenager reading African parasitology books in the medical library, I was boggled by the array of creatures equipped to take root upon a human body. I'm boggled still, but with a finer appreciati...

— Episode: Barbara Kingsolver — The Ethics of Eatin...

Episode: Barbara Kingsolver — The Ethics of Eating

The book was described as one of the speaker's favorite books. A specific passage from the book, focusing on Ada Price's perspective on the natural world in Africa, was read and discussed.

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As a teenager reading African parasitology books in the medical library, I was boggled by the array of creatures equipped to take root upon a human body. I'm boggled still, but with a finer appreciation. Back then I was still a bit miffed that God would set down the barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where presumably he had just turned loose elephant diosis and microbes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand God is not just rooting for the dollies.

Episode: [Unedited] Barbara Kingsolver with Krista Tippett

The book was described as one of the great novels of our time. A discussion of a passage relating to the natural world and the reconciliation of science and religion in the novel was included.

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I think the poison would Bible is one of the great novels of our time.

Episode: Barbara Kingsolver — The Ethics of Eating

This novel, set in post-colonial Africa, was discussed in relation to Ada Price's perspective on the natural world and humanity's place within it. A passage was read that highlighted this perspective.

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As a teenager reading African parasitology books in the medical library I was boggled by the array of creatures equipped to take root upon a human body. I'm boggled still, but with a finer appreciation. Back then I was still a bit miffed that God would set down the barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where presumably he had just turned loose elephant diosis and microbes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand God is not just rooting for the dollies.

Elevation with Steven Furtick

It was discussed in the context of the opioid crisis in Appalachia, and how people's behaviour can stem from their backgrounds and experiences, rather than inherently being 'bad'.

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That's why when Barbara Kingsolver was on Holly's book club and she was talking about the opioid crisis in Appalachia I was so enlightened for her to talk about how we judge people as being bad by the...

— Episode: Don't Fight Your Future

Episode: Don't Fight Your Future

It was discussed in the context of the opioid crisis in Appalachia, and how people's behaviour can stem from their backgrounds and experiences, rather than inherently being 'bad'.

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That's why when Barbara Kingsolver was on Holly's book club and she was talking about the opioid crisis in Appalachia I was so enlightened for her to talk about how we judge people as being bad by their behaviors But we don't understand the brokenness that came from their background to create the behaviors to begin with

She said stand up be a spider. I'll have a legs. I'll spin webs

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