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review Flight Behavior characters ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ☆ Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver ☆ 6 free download Y 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 acuaintance 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 believe. Dellarobia Turnbow an unhappy young farm wife living in Feathertown in Appalachia is about to embark on an extramarital affair when the sight of a blazing orange forest changes her mind It turns out the startling sight is caused by millions of Monarch butterflies covering the trees far from their usual winter home in MexicoThe biological oddity attracts widespread attention and theories about its cause range from an act of God to a world gone haywire from climate changeDr Ovid Byron a butterfly expert comes to Feathertown and sets up a temporary lab to study the insectsDellarobia prevented from attending college by a shot gun marriage at age 17 gets a job helping Dr Byron and becomes engrossed in the research This in turn magnifies the tediousness and poverty of Dellarobia s everyday life The book is partly a treatise on the dire conseuences of climate change and partly a character study of the Feathertown people who tend to reject scientific explanations for changes in nature regarding them as God s will The book didn t have a strong plot in the usual sense but the characters were interesting and the dangers of climate change were boldly drawn It s not my favorite Barbara Kingsolver book but it s well written and worth readingYou can follow my reviews at

review Flight Behavior characters ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ☆ Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver ☆ 6 free download Uickly 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 valle. I adored this book I drank it in slowly trying to make the story last and as a result I ended up becoming very involved in Dellarobia s life loving her children and newfound passions while also feeling frustrated and stuck by aspects of her situation This book is about global warming without really being all about global warming Somehow Kingsolver a biologist herself has woven the frightening and undeniable crisis of global warming into a beautiful coming of age story about a woman whose teenagehood was cut short by pregnancy early marriage but is finally learning to find her real self

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