Flight Behavior

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Call Number: Fiction / Kingsolver, Barbara, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kingsolver, Barbara
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Kingsolver, Barbara	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Kingsolver, Barbara	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kingsolver, Barbara	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Kingsolver, Barbara	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024

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.

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Ending disappointing submitted by Susan C on January 5, 2013, 10:14am The ending of this book was disappointing. There were many loose ends not explained.
This was another book where a smart woman makes some poor choices.

Not her best submitted by stoutr on August 19, 2014, 11:06pm I have enjoyed several of Kingsolver's other books very much and was expecting the same here, but it didn't quite live up to expectations. Kingsolver at her best is remarkable for her ability to write characters who are all utterly human, understandable, and likeable or at least worthy of respect and compassion, without taking sides even when these characters end up at cross purposes to each other. There were glimpses of that here, but in this book Kingsolver did pick a side and the book felt somewhat "preachy."