![]() As Dellarobia lives in a town where the concept of climate change is neither understood nor tolerated, the arrival of the butterflies raises all sorts of fascinating tensions between the townspeople and the many outsiders who come to see the unprecedented phenomenon. ![]() Soon enough, we learn that Dellarobia's mountain "miracle" is in fact a colony of migrating monarch butterflies - some 15 million - that has been thrown off its centuries-old flight plan by the chaotic weather patterns of a warming earth. She sees burning orange trees, their very limbs "writhing." Though she can't find words for what she's seeing, the alarming sight sends her fleeing back down the mountain, her lover forgotten, her soul shaken. Bored beyond endurance with her husband, her in-laws, and all the trials of life on a failing farm, she's headed to an illicit rendezvous on the mountaintop when a "vision of glory" stops her cold. ![]() Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior (New York: Harper, 2012), 436pp.Īs Barbara Kingsolver's seventh novel, Flight Behavior, begins, 28-year-old Dellarobia Turnbow is racing up an Appalachian mountainside in sexy, second-hand boots, about to throw her life away. ![]()
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