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Original Title:	Flight Behavior
ISBN:	0062124269 (ISBN13: 9780062124265)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Dellarobia Turnbow
Setting:	Feathertown, Tennessee(United States) Appalachia(United States)
Literary Awards:	Orion Book Award Nominee (2013), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013), Weatherford Award for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012)

Flight Behavior Hardcover | Pages: 436 pages

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Title	:	Flight Behavior
Author	:	Barbara Kingsolver
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 436 pages
Published	:	November 6th 2012 by HarperCollins (first published November 1st 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Environment. Adult Fiction. Book Club. Climate Change

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Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.

Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction.

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 has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. As she hikes up a mountain road behind her house to a secret tryst, she 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.

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.

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You are so right about her name! What a poor choice. I am stunned to read that the first chapter is the best, in your view, because I am abandoning

1.5 stars - I didn't like it..Despite the great opening sentence, this was a tedious and dull book about a loveless marriage between "a towering, morose man and his small, miserable wife" and "the Battle of the Butterflies". The author rehashes the same subplots over and over, which results in your ability to skim without being even the least bit lost or missing anything of significance. Extensive detail is used to discuss the mundane details of the character's daily lives such as shopping trips

Earlier this month, a writer in the Guardian lamented the scarcity of novels about the most pressing and complex problem of our time: climate change. We dont want to have this conversation, complained Daniel Kramb, and neither do most characters in most novels being published.As Paul Ryan would say, the dangers of this so-called crisis are debatable. Imagine if most characters in most novels lectured each other about climate change. Id push the last polar bear off his melting ice floe to avoid

Climactic disruption has become ever more evident since this books publication in 2012, seven short years ago. Just look at the 2018 IPCCs (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) statement even temporarily overshooting 1.5 degrees C may have irreversible impacts on our natural systems, including biodiversity loss or pushing past various climate tipping points. Barbara Kingsolver targets the monarch butterfly to give readers some idea of the vast complexity and consequences of the world and

A very difficult book to rate. I almost gave up on it, but became engaged around page 100. Though not completely engaged. It's just not that interesting, though some of the writing is very good. Not Kingsolver's best. 3 1/2 stars.

Well-intentioned but slow, condescending, somewhat predictable, and disappointing, especially considering the issues at stake.The story tries to illuminate the climate change crisis by explaining how alien and irrelevant it feels to people in a poor, southern, rural, white, American community; and how their attitudes conflict with those of educated, relatively wealthy outsiders who are scientists. The vehicle is Dellarobia, a mother of two married to a lunk of a farmer called Cub, on whose land