Have you read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, by the way? It reminds me of your description of The Mosquito Coast quite a bit, except that the focus is entirely on the rest of the family and not the crazy overbearing father. An American couple and their four daughters move to the Congo in the 1950s to become missionaries; the father becomes increasingly unhinged, eventually refusing to leave the country even when their church superiors officially order them to do so due to political turmoil. However he never gets a single word of narration – the POV sticks firmly to the daughters and wife. I absolutely adored The Poisonwood Bible when it first came out, though I haven't reread it in years and years so I'm not sure how it would hold up.
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Date: 2019-12-05 12:23 am (UTC)