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  Novel revisits missionaries’ mandates with more cross-cultural understanding

  In Five Wives, Winnipeg-based novelist Joan Thomas takes a clear-eyed look at a true incident, Operation Auca. This was an attempt by American evangelical Christians to convert the Waorani, an isolated tribe in Ecuador’s Amazonian jungle. In 1956, after dropping gifts from their small plane, five men land and try to make contact. The men are massacred, and their wives are left to continue the mission.

  By Margaret Goldik     Issue 75, Fall/Winter 2019/20