He ropes in Dellarobia to help him decode the mystery of the monarch butterflies.įlight Behaviour has featured on the NY Times bestseller list and is Barbara Kingsolver’s most accessible novel yet. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel Flight Behavior presents a compelling symbolic connection between Dellarobia Turnbow, an unhappy farm wife who secretly dreams of running away from it all, and a surprising migration of monarch butterflies that alight upon her in-law’s property in Feathertown, Tennessee. Twisters of brightness against grey sky.” Dellarobia Turnbow, the smart-mouthed heroine of Barbara Kingsolvers Flight Behavior, is frustrated by her marriage to Cub, the boy who got her pregnant in high school, and by.

The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. “The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. ‘A compelling plot with lyrical passages and flashes of humour.’ Sunday Telegraphįlight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by global bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2010. ‘ There are many moments of lightness … and of great beauty, too. ‘Lyrical, socially engaged and passionate.’ Sunday Times ** DEMON COPPERHEAD: THE NEW BARBARA KINGSOLVER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW **

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