That narrative power in Five Wives helped Thomas win the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2019.
“I grew up in an evangelical household I knew the story of the missionaries well as a child,” Joan Thomas says. The Free Press review called the book “an engrossing, thoughtful read, and a fresh testament to Thomas’s narrative powers - and her ability to locate a human pulse under the often-deafening drumbeats of religious and cultural tradition.” The missionaries’ goal had been to connect with an Indigenous Amazonian community they called the “Auca” (from the Quichua term for “savages”), bringing the teachings of the Bible from the United States and converting them to Christianity. The book, published in 2019 by HarperAvenue, is a fictionalized account of events leading up to the deaths of five Evangelical Christian missionaries in mid-1950s Ecuador, as well as the ways in which the missionaries’ widows and extended family coped and persevered in the aftermath. 25, as she reads from and discusses her most recent book Five Wives. The Winnipeg Free Press Book Club, in partnership with McNally Robinson Booksellers, is pleased to welcome award-winning Winnipeg novelist Joan Thomas on Monday, Jan. This article was published (838 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practice journalism.
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