Flight Behavior

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. Free Download [ Flight Behavior ] By [ Barbara Kingsolver ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I love Barbara Kingsolver All of her books automatically go on my to read list, because she s brilliant One of the things I love about her is how unique her books are from one another She writes different kind of characters in disparate environments and focuses on varying themes I find it so impressive when authors can reinvent themselves so often Flight Behavior is my fourth Kingsolver book Unfortunately, unlike the others, this one failed to meet my expectations.My first Kingsolver read I love Barbara Kingsolver All of her books automatically go on my to read list, because she s brilliant One of the things I love about her is how unique her books are from one another She writes different kind of characters in disparate environments and focuses on varying themes I find it so impressive when authors can reinvent themselves so often Flight Behavior is my fourth Kingsolver book Unfortunately, unlike the others, this one failed to meet my expectations.My first Kingsolver read was The Bean Trees, which centers around a girl desperate to get out of her small, hick town where most of the girls are pregnant before they even leave high school She wants to be one of the ones to leave and never come back Through some odd circumstances, she finds herself stuck raising a baby that s not hers, sort of falling into motherhood The plot itself didn t have much appeal for me as a reader, but ...In 2004 Barbara Kingsolver moved from Tucson, where she had lived since 1978, to southern Appalachia This marked a return to her roots, migrating back to an ancestral place, like the butterflies in her latest novel, Flight Behavior might once have done She must feel right at home there as she has written a wonderful book set in the fictional Appalachian town of Feathertown, Tennessee The flight of the title refers not only to the arrival of hordes of butterflies, but flights of various sorts In 2004 Barbara Kingsolver moved from Tucson, where she had lived since 1978, to southern Appalachia This marked a return to her roots, migrating back to an ancestral place, like the butterflies in her latest novel, Flight Behavior might once have done She must feel right at home there as she has written a wonderful book set in the fictional Appalachian town of Feathertown, Tennessee The flight of the title refers not only to the arrival of hordes of butterflies, but flights of various sorts undertaken by her charactersLike Moses, Dellarobia Turnbow climbs a mountain and sees a vision Instead of a flaming bush she sees a flaming forest, alive with millions of Monarch butterflies As with Moses, what she saw changed her life Of course her motivation was a bit different Big Mo was seeking guidance from God on how to lead his people Dellarobia was leaving her husband and two kids to take up with her latest romantic entanglement, looking to fly rather than ...Redneck environmentalism Now there s a contradiction in terms Kingsolver s writing is up to its usual high standards, and her character development is outstanding She just tried to stuff way too many things into one sausage casing The result is something tough to chew, sometimes bland, and slow to digest In this novel, BK was fixated on long conversations while the characters are shopping There was one with Cub and Dellarobia in the dollar store, and another with Dovey and Dellarobia in th Redneck environmentalism Now there s a contradiction in terms Kingsolver s writing is up to its usual high standards, and her character development is outstanding She just tried to stuff way too many things in...Barbara Kingsolver is one of those rare writers with whom you know what you are getting before you open the first page.You know, for example, that the prose is going to be literary, dense, and luscious take this descriptive line Summer s heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in turn, and everything living now seemed to yearn for sun with the anguish of the unloved You know that the content will focus on some kind of social justice, biodiversity, or environmental issue You know, too, Barbara Kingsolver is one of those rare writers with whom you know what you are getting before you open the first page.You know, for example, that the prose is going to be literary, dense, and luscious take this descriptive line Summer s ...The author has a real point to make here global warming is bad, logging is bad, they re killing the monarch butterfly population and Attention Must Be Paid That message is interwoven with the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a poor farmer s wife who used to have dreams of college and something better.Dellarobia married Cub at 17, pregnant with his child She miscarried, and rather than leave Cub and continue with her plans for college she stays, eventually having Preston and Cordelia One day, thi The author has a real point...Yes, Ms Kingsolver knows her way around a pretty turn of phrase In this book, however, she uses her pretty language to dress up an unlikeable bitch and then she harangues us on and on about global warming, the sins of buying shoddy goods made overseas, the shameful state of rural education, hmmm, did I miss anything People make SPEECHES in this book, as if it were conversation And then she has the less bitchy friend of the bitch woman throw in old chestnuts from church bulletin boards, Yes, Ms Kingsolver knows her way around a pretty turn of phrase In this book, however, she uses her pretty language to dress up an unlikeable bitch and then she harangues us on and on about global warming, the sins of buying shoddy goods made overseas, the shameful state of rural education, hmmm, did I miss anything People make SPEECHES in this book, as if it were conversation And then she has the less bitchy friend of the bitch woman throw in old chestnuts from church bulletin boards, which, tru...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 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 K...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.When I first heard the title to Barbara Kingsolver s seventh novel, I thought of airplanes Such is the orientation of the 21st century Well, prepare to step into the rural, economically depressed farming and sheepherding town of Feathertown, Tennessee, where the shepherds flock on Sundays to commune with Pastor Bobby Ogle, their beloved and kind preacher and s...Beautiful, moving, and articulate Kingsolver has absolutely accomplished what she set out to do with this novel, that is, to write fiction that takes climate change for its backdrop the first book of its kind, and momentous in doing such.As Kingsolver puts it, poor, rural, Southerners are the people in the United States most likely to be affected by climate change Unfortunately, they are also the demographic least likely to have any accurate information about what it is, and what that means f Beautiful, moving, and articulate Kingsolver has absolutely ac...

• English
• 22 May 2018
Barbara Kingsolver
• Hardcover
• 436 pages
• 0062124269
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Flight Behavior