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was tested,” the key point there being that the biblical Job was blameless in the tortures God visited on him. When Nathan finds out that two of his daughters are academically gifted, he gives his thoughts on the matter in the form of a folksy saying: “Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes. It’s hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.”

Kingsolver has described Orleanna, the mother, as “absolute paralyzing guilt” and as a late 1950’s mother in Africa, she has no control over her husband or the safety of her children, and in the wider view, she has no control the actions of her country.

This connection between Orleanna’s control over life and country is important because

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