There is a great deal in Flight Behavior to enjoy and admire. The vision of the butterflies turns Dellarobia around, literally and figuratively, and send her life in new and remarkable directions. When she climbs up the wooded hills of her husband’s family’s land to meet her lover, she discovers the entire Monarch butterfly population of North America, which has settled for the winter in rural Tennessee rather than deep in Mexico, because of climate change. In Dellarobia’s case, these circumstances are a small Appalachian town, an ill-matched husband acquired through a high-school pregnancy, a small confining house with two young children, and subsistence farming on the land of her resentful in-laws.Īs Flight Behavior opens, Dellarobia is set to destroy (and so escape) her marriage through a particularly reckless and desperate act of adultery. The novel’s central character is Dellarobia Turnbow who like many Kingsolver characters is a woman with an intelligence, spirit, and sex drive too large for her circumstances.
This is a good thing because Flight Behavior has several although it is still a book well worth reading.įlight Behavior has a number of shortcomings, but these do not include its language or characters, which are solid, complex, persuasive, and satisfying. Barbara Kingsolver is such a good writer that she can make you forget - or forgive - some pretty substantial problems in a novel.
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