Flight Behavior Paperback - 2013
by Barbara Kingsolver
In a riveting story by the author of "The Poisonwood Bible, " a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee experiences something she cannot explain. Her discovery energizes various competing factions, trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world.
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Readers were sharply divided on Barbara Kingsolver’s novel about an Appalachian woman whose life is upended by a displaced swarm of monarch butterflies. Many praised the book’s lush prose, empathetic portrait of rural life, and lucid treatment of climate change and the science–religion divide. Others found it heavy-handed and slow, arguing that the message often overwhelms the story and that stretches of domestic minutiae stall the plot.
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Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man.
She hikes up a mountain road behind her house toward a secret tryst, but instead encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome.
As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town, and a larger world, in a flight toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed.
Details
- Title Flight Behavior
- Author Barbara Kingsolver
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY
- Publication date 2013-06-04
- ISBN 9780062124272 / 0062124277
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 3.05 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Geographic Orientation: Tennessee
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Curiosities and wonders, Appalachian Region, Southern
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Christian Century, 05/15/2013, Page 39
- New York Times Book Review, 07/07/2013, Page 24
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