![]() ![]() Kingsolver’s vivid prose and ease at weaving this tale make it a fun, compelling read, one that provides insight to the worlds of science and rural America. Kingsolver calls “ Flight Behavior,” which was published in fall 2012, “a fictional story within a plausible biological framework.” It’s an enjoyable tale with a witty, worrying main character who elicits our sympathy. Soon, the Turnbow barn gets converted to a lab and Dellarobia works part-time for the scientist, along with his graduate students, in an effort to uncover what’s going on with the monarchs. ![]() Then a lepidopterist from a New Mexico university comes to study the butterflies. Media outlets interview Dellarobia, who becomes a reluctant mini-celebrity for having her butterfly “vision” - but some feel it goes to her head. Dellarobia’s in-debt father-in-law wants to sell the mountain land to a logging company, but others want to preserve it and charge money to tourists to see the monarch colony. The butterflies disrupt life in the quiet town. The monarchs have never come to these parts, but a natural disaster has destroyed their winter habitat in Mexico, and the butterflies appear in November in the Volunteer State - the implication being it’s warm enough there to host them, even though it’s almost winter. ![]()
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