![]() ![]() ![]() Following what they considered successful airdrops of supplies, the group had made a camp on a nearby beach, but were unfortunately attacked after the Indigenous peoples decided they were a threat. The plan was upended when all five men were killed by the Huaorani in a single assault. They were viewed as a very dangerous group, who many believed to have a penchant for cannibalism, but the men believed that they would be able to successfully provide the peoples with the word of God. However, their real goal was to make contact with and “civilize” an Indigenous group called the Huaorani, who lived entirely isolated in the jungle without any outside influence. Thankfully, Joan Thomas did not disappoint.įive Wives is a fictional account of the real-life Operation Auca, where five American missionary men and their families (Jim and Betty Elliot, Peter and Olive Fleming, Nate and Marj Saint, Ed and Marilou McCully, and Roger and Barbara Youderian) moved to Ecuador in the 1950s under the pretence of linguistic education. I picked this up because one critic said it’s in the style of The Poisonwood Bible, which I loved, and because it won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2019. ![]() After my last read, I definitely needed something to remind me why I love literature. ![]()
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