Flight behavior book review6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() “Unearthly beauty had appeared to her, a vision of glory….It looked like the inside of joy” ![]() ![]() On the morning that Dellarobia Turnbow resolved to take flight from her ordinary existence as a wife and mother living on a struggling rural Appalachian sheep farm owned by her in-laws, she discovered a miracle. Status: Read from October 24 to 25, 2012 - I own a copy It is Barbara Kingsolver’s most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human novel touching on class, poverty and climate change. Instead, on the Appalachian mountains above her farm, she discovers something much more profoundly life-changing – a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. Synopsis: Discontented with her life of poverty on a failing farm in the Eastern United States, Dellarobia, a young mother, impulsively seeks out an affair. ![]()
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