Monday, May 6, 2013

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

I forgot how much I love Kingsolver's writing! I have not read a novel by her since The Poisonwood Bible because that was such an amazing book. I can't imagine that she could ever do better. But this book blew me away, too! The novel is all about climate change, but that theme is threaded into a captivating story about a woman, Dellarobia Turnbow, who turns her life around based on an epiphany she has on the road to what could have been ruin.
Dellarobia is 28, smart, attractive, and bored with her life as a mother and wife of Cub, a local Appalachian who spends his time at home channel surfing and never staying on one program for more than a few minutes. Dellarobia had aspirations of attending college but her pregnancy with Cub's baby, which they lost, kept her from attaining that dream.
Her life changes when the butterflies appear and there's no going back. She meets up with scientists who come to their small town to try to figure out why the monarch butterflies have decided to migrate to this spot instead of their usual place in Mexico.
There are so many interesting and compelling passages in this novel.  It's such an interesting take on the issue of climate change. Everyone should read this book!

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