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. I was calm at first, but when I walked into the offices here I started crying.”įive Wives 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 perservered. I know there are a lot of people in Winnipeg who were cheering for me, and who are very happy, and that just deepens my joy about the whole thing. “I woke up this morning to my phone going crazy. “It’s incredible,” Thomas said on the phone from HarperCollins’ Toronto office, where she was doing media interviews following the announcement of the win. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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