Identical twins, indistinguishable genetically, nevertheless grow to become different, each furthering his/her uniqueness, yet always remaining in some ways identical to the other. Perhaps it's because twins provide a good paradigm for society. Barbara Kingsolver's latest, The Poisonwood Bible, carries on this trend with a story of a Baptist missionary family in the Congo in the 1950's. Twins showed up in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. What is it about the subject of twins that make them such a common subject for authors? Toni Morrison's recent novel centered around twins. Review Copyright © 2000 Garret Wilson - Janu5:20 p.m. ☰ Review: The Poisonwood Bible Title The Poisonwood Bible Author Barbara Kingsolver Publisher HarperPerennial, New York, 1999 ISBN 0-06-093053 Review: The Poisonwood Bible Garret Wilson
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