"Unearthly beauty had appeared to her, a vision of glory to stop her in the road." Convinced this "brightness rising" was there to save her from betraying Cub, Dellarobia hurries back down the mountain to her vinyl-sided ranch house and a life "measured in half dollars and clipped coupons and culled hopes flattened between uninsulated walls." She sees millions of migrating monarch butterflies assembled into what appears to be a glowing "lake of fire." between tomatoes and a ladybug." She is determined to have "this one sweet chance," even if it means risking her family and reputation.Īt the end of her climb, feet blistering in stylish boots bought secondhand for $6, Dellarobia stops in wonder. Dellarobia glories in her long, straight red hair, which her lover-to-be describes as "somewhere between a stop sign and sunset.
Kingsolver opens "Flight Behavior" in a frenzy, as Dellarobia Turnbow, a one-time rebel girl with two young children and a husband hopelessly browbeaten by his mother, rushes up a mountain hollow to a tryst with a younger man. "Flight Behavior," her provocative eighth, imagines global warming shifting the traditional winter habitat of monarch butterflies from a mountaintop village in Mexico to an Appalachian valley. Barbara Kingsolver has gained a loyal readership and much critical praise for her emotionally resonant, socially aware novels.
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