Book description
Discontented with her life of poverty on a failing farm in the
Eastern United States, Dellarobia, a young mother, impulsively seeks
out an affair. Instead, on the Appalachian mountains above her home,
she discovers something much more profoundly life-changing - a
beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. 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 story touching on class,
poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible
novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities
that lie behind them.
Barbara Kingsolver's thirteen books of fiction, poetry and
non-fiction include the novels The Bean Trees and the international
bestseller The Poisonwood Bible which, amongst other accolades, won
the 2005 Penguin/Orange Reading Group Book of the Year award. Her most
recent novel is The Lacuna.
