Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a. Flight Behavior: A Novel Kindle Edition by Barbara Kingsolver (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 8,333 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world. Flight Behavior represents contemporary American fiction at its finest. Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various competing factions-religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, politicians-trapping her in the center of the conflict and ultimately opening up her world.
Kingsolver has constructed a deeply affecting microcosm of a phenomenon that is manifesting in many different tragic ways, in communities and ecosystems all around the globe.” - Seattle TimesĪ truly stunning and unforgettable work from the extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracleįlight Behavior is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia a breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our particular chosen truths.
"An intricate story that entwines considerations of faith and faithlessness, inquiry, denial, fear and survival in gorgeously conceived metaphor.
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