![]() ![]() She and Cub “had to get married” during their senior year in high school. The book is called Flight Behavior because small, red-haired Dellarobia, 28, is seeking ways to flee her stagnant and dead-end (as she sees it) marriage. ![]() I’ve read only a few of Kingsolver’s books, but of these the best and most significant so far are The Poisonwood Bible (about a missionary family in the Congo) and her most recent novel, Flight Behavior.įlight Behavior is the story of Dellarobia Turnbow and her family, who live in Appalachian Tennessee-the same general area where Kingsolver herself resides with her family. Her nonfiction includes Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. ![]() In her more substantial novels, she is a social-political observer and critic. ![]() Kingsolver writes fiction, but she is also a science and nature writer in both her fiction and nonfiction. (The review is still available on my website, ) She is particularly good at metaphors and similes, and at double or parallel meanings.Ī decade ago I reviewed her remarkable novel The Poisonwood Bible. One can learn a lot about writing just from carefully reading her superbly crafted work. 437 pp.īarbara Kingsolver is a fine writer. Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel. ![]()
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