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Leah Price is a protagonist in the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. She is the eldest daughter of Nathan Price, a fanatical Baptist missionary who takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959. Leah is strong-willed and intelligent, with a deep desire to understand the culture and people around her. She often serves as the voice of reason and compassion within her family, and struggles to reconcile her Christian beliefs with the inhumane actions of her father and other white people towards the Congolese people.
Nathan Price is a fundamentalist Baptist preacher who takes his family to the Belgian Congo as missionaries in the late 1950s. He is rigidly religious, stubborn, and oppressive towards his wife and four daughters, making him a divisive and complicated figure in the novel.
