![]() ![]() “I felt the families’ eyes upon me as I was writing this, and I wanted to be respectful. “The men’s point of view is better represented in some ways, because we have their journals I always wanted to explore the women,” said Thomas. ![]() The missionaries’ trip has been widely written about, both in journals from the missionaries themselves and in other memoirs and biographies about the event, but Thomas chose to approach the narrative from the perspectives of the women involved for a particular reason. The men of the families were killed during the trip, and the wives and children remained to continue pursuing the mission. Thomas’ historical fiction novel Five Wives was the topic of discussion during the virtual event, where Thomas spoke at length on her process when approaching the novel.įive Wives, published in 2019, is a fictionalized account of the journey a group of evangelical Christian missionaries took into the rainforest of Ecuador in 1956 to convert the Waorani people, an indigenous group that had not had contact with the outside world at that time. Award-winning author Joan Thomas dug in deep when dissecting her most recent novel with the Festival of Words patrons and moderator and fellow author Angie Abdou at the Great Big Book Club. ![]()
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