Flight Behavior (2012) (edit title/settings)

Sabina E edited the description of Flight Behavior Saturday, December 8, 2012.

• Barbara KingsolverDellarobia Turnbow is the authora 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. She hikes up a mountain road behind her house towards a secret tryst, but instead encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of seven worksfire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of fiction, includingother explanations from scientists, religious leaders and the novelsmedia. The Poisonwood Bible , Animal Dreams ,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 The Bean Trees , as well as books of poetry, essays,her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town and creative nonfiction such as Animal, Vegetable, Miracle . In 2000,a larger world, in a flight towards truth that could undo all she was awardedhas ever believed.

  Flight Behaviour takes on one of the National Humanities Medal,most contentious subjects of our country's highest honor for service throughtime: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the arts. She lives with her family onmotives that drive denial and belief in a farm in southern Appalachia.precarious world.

Shelfari edited the description of Flight Behavior Friday, May 18, 2012.

• Barbara Kingsolver is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novels The Poisonwood Bible , Animal Dreams , and The Bean Trees , as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction such as Animal, Vegetable, Miracle . In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.