Flight Behaviour

Barbara Kingsolver 2012

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
literary fiction loss philosophical survival

Our Take

Monarch butterflies appear in Appalachian Tennessee instead of Mexico and a farmer's wife encounters the scientific community's attempt to explain what climate change has already made undeniable. Kingsolver writes the collision of cultures and worldviews with a generosity that never tips into sentimentality. The butterflies are beautiful. They are dying.

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