Flight Behavior

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Flight Behavior

1st edition cover
Author Barbara Kingsolver
Country United States
Language English
Publisher HarperCollins
Publication date
 2012
ISBN 978-0-06-212427-2

Flight Behavior is a 2012 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It is her seventh novel, is a New York Times Bestseller, and was declared "Best book of the year" by the Washington Post and USA Today.[1]

Plot

Dellarobia Turnbow is a 28-year-old discontented housewife living in a small town in rural Tennessee. On a hike to meet a telephone repairman and begin an affair she finds that the valley behind their house is covered in millions of Monarch butterflies. As the news of her discovery spreads, she receives a visit from Ovid Byron, a university professor who studies the monarchs, and warns that although they are beautiful, they are a disturbing symptom of global climate change, displaced from their typical wintering location in Mexico, and that they may not survive the harsh Tennessee winter.

References

  1. ↑ "10 Books We Loved Reading in 2012". USA Today. Retrieved 11 July 2013. 
The works of Barbara Kingsolver
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