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Best book of the year New York Times Notable, Washington Post Notable, Editor's Choice, USA Today's Top Ten (#1), St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star
Prize-winning author Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award), Orange Prize for Fiction
Prize-winning author National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Orange Prize for Fiction, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award)
"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words." (Time)
The extraordinary New York Times best-selling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work.
Flight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various competing factions - religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, politicians - trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world.
Flight Behavior is arguably Kingsolver's most thrilling and accessible novel to date, and like so many other of her acclaimed works, represents contemporary American fiction at its finest.
Read Online Flight Behavior Audible Audio Edition Barbara Kingsolver HarperAudio Books
"Sometimes it takes the author a while to get to the point, but the journey there is agreeable. She has a fabulous way with words like, "She reminded me of Cleopatra, in de-Nile". I felt for the downtrodden heroine Dellarobia, but also was aware that many of her circumstances were of her own making. You can have a small house in a rural community, but it doesn't have to be unclean or disorderly. Having two small children does not seem to me to sufficient reason to live in this way. Dellarobia moves from one infatuation to another, never realizing until the last that she is her own way out. Kingsolver's characters are well-defined.
There is a lot about Monarch butterflies, much I'd never even considered. That was interesting. The author does get a bit "preachy" about the environment and global warming, some of which was germane to the story, but probably more was in the book than necessary to make the point. There are side threads about Dovey and Hester, and a little gotcha there in the story. I think you will enjoy the book."
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Flight Behavior Audible Audio Edition Barbara Kingsolver HarperAudio Books Reviews
- Sometimes it takes the author a while to get to the point, but the journey there is agreeable. She has a fabulous way with words like, "She reminded me of Cleopatra, in de-Nile". I felt for the downtrodden heroine Dellarobia, but also was aware that many of her circumstances were of her own making. You can have a small house in a rural community, but it doesn't have to be unclean or disorderly. Having two small children does not seem to me to sufficient reason to live in this way. Dellarobia moves from one infatuation to another, never realizing until the last that she is her own way out. Kingsolver's characters are well-defined.
There is a lot about Monarch butterflies, much I'd never even considered. That was interesting. The author does get a bit "preachy" about the environment and global warming, some of which was germane to the story, but probably more was in the book than necessary to make the point. There are side threads about Dovey and Hester, and a little gotcha there in the story. I think you will enjoy the book. - Flight Behavior is a work of fiction based on scientific truths. The characters are entwined with secrets and unspoken feelings as well as small town gossip and assumptions.. The book begins with the flight behavior of Dellarobia fleeing her marriage and circumstances, which rapidly changes into a magic like transformation. She returns home to face criticism and acclaim. This quickly turns into TV reporters, videos, and social media, in addition to strangers assailing her home.
When the "miracle" she encountered on the mountain is revealed as a mass migration of Monarch butterflies in a poor Tennessee town, a scientist whose life work has been dedicated to researching the migratory flights of Monarchs turns up with some post graduate students to study the phenomena, she is hired to work on the project. The reader has already seen the intelligence in Dellarobia and she becomes a valuable asset to the team. As her world view widens so does that of her in-laws behavior and secrets.
Her in-laws are cold, even to her children, but hold she and her husband responsible to service the debt on the farm. Her father in-law sees the trees on the mountain above "Cub" and her home as an asset to be clear cut; the means of clearing his debt. The weather of unrelenting rain has made a mire of the farm and surrounding area.
The scientist, Dr. , whose study of Monarch butterflies sets up his lab in their barn and sets his trailer next to it. He connects this unknown behavior of the butterflies ss directly accountable to changes in the climate.
There are real surprises based on the relationships between people in this book and fact based scientific evidence. - I very much enjoyed listening to this book; the science in it seems quite on target, and the analysis of why Americans can't seem to have a straightforward discussion of climate change seems pretty insightful. Kingsolver writes with a clear affection for both the people and the natural landscape of rural, Southern Appalachia. Some passages are lyrical in their description of the southern mountains, even in the colder months of the year in which this tale is set.
The character of DellaRobbia, the protagonist, seems achingly real to me-- a bright, intellectually curious, but poor woman caught in a trap of a loveless marriage at too young an age.Yet she struggles with her passions and desires for adventure, and pits them against love for her children and a desire to be a caring wife. Her internal turmoil created by the arrival of the exotic, handsome scientist who comes to study the aberrant butterfly migration on her property, and the intellectual and sexual desires that are created through her contact with him and with her burgeoning knowledge of the world of environmental science seems quite real. Through it all, her social and cultural environment of small town life and the economic (and intellectual) poverty is well documented. Against the bigotry, resentment, and anti-intellectualism of the rural Southerner, Kingsolver juxtaposes the prejudices and class snobbery of the well--educated environmental activist elites. In the end, Kingsolver gives DellaRobbia a pathway in which she can escape from her caged existence, but she leaves us with the question on how to bridge the divide between climate deniers and environmental activists still unresolved.
