![]() ![]() Her husband, Cub - whom she married as a pregnant teenager - is a kind but passive man who cedes all decisions to his domineering parents who own the sheep farm where they all live and work. A mother of young children, trapped in claustrophobic rural poverty, Dellarobia long ago repressed any ambitions or promise of her own. As environmental, economic, and political issues converge, the residents of Feathertown, Tennessee, are forced to come to terms with their changing place in the larger world.ĭellarobia Turnbow, the engaging central character who sets things in motion, is ready for a change of any kind. Set in Appalachia, a region to which Kingsolver has returned often in both her acclaimed fiction and nonfiction, its suspenseful narrative traces the unforeseen impact of global concerns on the ordinary citizens of a rural community. ![]() The novel is a heady exploration of climate change, along with media exploitation and political opportunism that lie at the root of what may be our most urgent modern dilemma. Barbara Kingsolver returns to native ground in her fourteenth book, Flight Behavior. ![]()
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