The Poisonwood Bible (1998)

A missionary's wife and four daughters describe the same family project in the Congo with markedly different priorities. What one treats as an inconvenience another begins to recognise as a moral failure. Their differences make changes in loyalty and responsibility feel earned, rather than supplied by an all-knowing verdict. These are five American women's accounts, not a complete Congolese perspective; the novel's colonial setting and substantial family tragedy need that distinction.