There are much better ones. I looked forward to Rachel's chapters for the priceless malapropisms. If the man you are supposedly engaged to calls you one, you ought to know. Combined with Adah's palindromes, the book was worth reading just for the wordplay.
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I found most of the characters in TPB to be two dimensional, but I was fascinated with Adah. The year is 1959 and the country is on the brink of independence from its European exploiters, but politics aren't the chief concern of either the Prices or their new neighbors. This sentence lit up for me while I was reading the review. Nathan is an obvious example, as he aimed only to save the Africans from eternal damnation. Orleanna and her daughters saw so much earlier than tunnel-vision Nathan that they needed to get out of Africa when politics were becoming more and more dangerous.