Told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. The Poisonwood Bible is the story of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. They carry with them all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seed to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil.
This was listed as parted of Oprah's Book Club and for that reason I didn't want to read it, but found that I couldn't put it down.
A fantastic book that I think you would enjoy too!