What is the author's style in The Poisonwood Bible? Can you give examples of that style?

The style of writing in the Poisonwood
Bible by Barbara Kingsolver involves the rather unique style of using five
different narrators of varying ages each telling the story from their first person point
of view. This style brings interest and depth to both the plot and characterizations in
the novel which is divided into books. Each book begins with Orleanna Price, the mother
peering back while narrating the chapter as she reflects on a particular time in the
family’s journey with her point of view. The other four narrators are Oleanea’s
daughters Ruth May, Adah, Rachel and the oldest, Leah, who, early in the book range from
five years old to seventeen. They mature throughout the book which gives each of them a
unique outlook on the events of the journey, living conditions, and emotions in each
chapter, which unlike their mother, they tell in
real-time.

Early in Book 1 Orleanna gazes back over the
years saying, "I could have been a different mother, you'll say. Could have straightened
up and seen what was coming, for it was thick in the air all around
us."

Leah, the oldest, talks about her future, "when I am a
grown-up American lady with a backyard garden of my own. I shall tell all the world the
lessons I learned in Africa."

Rachel, speaks with her
teenage perspective talking about missing boys saying, "Which I guess just goes to show
you how unaccustomed to the male species I have
become."

Adah shows her exasperation with the family’s life
by saying, "I never much imagined myself as a woman grown, anyway, and nowadays
especially it seems a waste of imagination."

Ruth May in
her five year old voice speaks to her understanding of life’s problems by seeking divine
intervention, "I was bad, sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby
Jesus didn't."

Each character gives the reader a different
mindset, during the same time frame in the family’s life.