On the strength of that and nothing more, just a few degrees of temperature, the gray clouds scurried away to parts unknown like a fleet of barn cats.
On shearing day the weather turned cool and fine. As Dellarobia soon learns, the flames were actually monarch butterflies whose migration was thrown off by environmental devastation and weird weather (and which appeared flame-like because she'd left her glasses at home). She'd been hiking through the woods to meet a lover, a tryst she abandons after her near-religious experience. In the excerpt, Dellarobia is still thinking about the strange vision she'd witnessed the day before, of "a mighty blaze rising from ordinary forest" but not consuming it. This exclusive excerpt exhibits one of the book's pleasures - Kingsolver's closely observed depictions of rural life - as it introduces the main characters. Kingsolver mixes a story of personal awakening with themes of environmental stewardship and climate change as a freak natural phenomenon begins to transform Dellarobia's life.
How?ĭellarobia Turnbow, the smart-mouthed heroine of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, is frustrated by her marriage to Cub, the boy who got her pregnant in high school, and by the grinding privation of life on her in-laws' failing farm. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Flight Behavior Author Barbara Kingsolver
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