The Poison Wood Bible
Having now spent some time reading The Poison Wood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver I have found that the style in which it is written is very different compared to other books I have read. Kingsolver chooses to have the story told through different narrators. What is so interesting about this style is how each of those narrators sounds. In the past when reading books that use this technique you can still hear the same hint of the author's voice in each narrator, the writing style does not change much. In this book, however, each new narrator has such a different voice it's amazing that the same person is writing for all of them. For example, Kingsolver describes each of the daughters at the beginning of the book making them each very different. Then when a daughter is chosen as the narrator that specific difference from the others is extremely evident in the writing style. I think that this adds to the story making it more captivating because it makes so every character is somehow