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Author Kingsolver, Barbara.

Title Flight behavior : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Harper, [2012]
©2012
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1536376~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F KINGSOLV    DISPLAY
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F KINGSOLV    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F KINGSOLV    DUE 04-27-24
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Description 436 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive flirtation with a handsome younger man. In the opening scene, Dellarobia is headed for a secluded mountain cabin to meet this man and initiate what she expects will be a self-destructive affair. But the tryst never happens. Instead, she walks into something on the mountainside she cannot explain or understand: a forested valley filled with silent red fire that appears to her a miracle. After years lived entirely in the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out, chapter by chapter, into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.--publisher.
Subject Women biologists -- Fiction.
Curiosities and wonders -- Fiction.
Tennessee -- Fiction.
Genre Suspense fiction.
ISBN 9780062124265 (hardback)
9780062124272 (trade paperback)
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SRP 2013 REVIEW: My favorite read so far this summer! Thoughtful and thought provoking. Only Kingsolver could deliver such a poetic story -weaving life in the Appalachian mountains, Monarch butterfly migration, climate change, modern community and religious faith into a tapestry of living art.
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August 14 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: One of the greatest author's of our time.
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