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A beautifully written story about change, choices, accountability and responsibility. Dellarobia Turnbow's world is turned upside down when she experiences an environmental phenomenon in a most personal way.
Flight Behavior is vintage Kingsolver. I savored every word and every character. She is so skilled at revealing only the most necessary details to flesh out her important characters. She gives us less information about her other characters because they are just that--less important, but still ...more
Flight Behavior is vintage Kingsolver. I savored every word and every character. She is so skilled at revealing only the most necessary details to flesh out her important characters. She gives us less information about her other characters because they are just that--less important, but still ...more
This is a beautiful and terrifying book about climate change, set in rural Appalachia, against the protagonist's parallel journey of liberation. Kingsolver's writing is masterful, like always. So much of the story is about longing for things that seem unobtainable, when in fact they're only unobtainable because the various characters made them unobtainable for themselves. A wake-up call on climate change, as well as life's domestic decisions.
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I never really connected with this book and I really wanted to. The idea of butterflies changing the lives of ecosystem of an Appalachian family sounds fascinating but I couldn't really identify with the heroine and didn't cheer her on. As a eco-buff, I did find some of the information interesting.
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Heavy handed, yes. This is your climate change rebuttal... Rebuttal. But I thought it was an engaging read. And stuck as I am squarely in new mother land where economizing and a new ecology of needs are on my mind, I found it illuminating and resonant.
I adore Barbara Kingsolver's writing in general. I have read several of her novels, and am consistently impressed by her beautiful language. I really enjoyed this book, even if I thought some of the environmental warnings were a little clunky.
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