May 28, 2024
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
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Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
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Some things they got right... And for all the rest they wept, a merged keening that felt bottomless. For the years and years of things that didn’t exist, fantasies of flight where there was no flight. Nothing, really, but walking away on your own two feet.
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
There’s rarely a bad book by a female author that shows you just how much you can ruin your life by marrying the wrong person. Or in the case of Dellarobia, by marrying at all.
It was a wild ride. From hating the story at the beginning and despising the main character to the core, I came to care for her, worry for her, and hope for her as if she were a real person. Barbara Kingsolver made me empathize with Dellarobia and love her, rather than hate her - all within the course of 600 pages. And at first glance, it would be my first and only problem with this book: it is simply too big for the content it gives. The plot is thick with Dellarobia shopping, and walking, and talking, and thinking, and one can argue that it adds very little to our understanding of her as a person. But I learnt to think that perhaps it is intentional: as the novel drags itself to its climactic ending, we share those moments of boredom and misunderstandings and angst with Dellarobia.
It is eco-fiction combined with the “belated” coming of age story where the main protagonist of 28-years-old still hasn’t figured out what her life could be like, and it covers so many themes from division in class, poverty, and the lack of resources of an individual to larger issues of the migration of monarch butterflies broadening to the discussion of climate change, and media representation that comes with it.
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Somewhere in the room behind her Pete was up on a ladder, loudly stapling plastic sheeting to the walls. They were making their laboratory in the sheep barn. Contrary to her expectations, a butterfly lab looked something like a kitchen with outlandishly expensive appliances. For two days she’d been helping them unpack the crates they’d brought from New Mexico, and she knew it was bad manners but couldn’t stop herself from asking about the costs of things.
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. Or so it seemed for now, to a woman with flame-colored hair who marched uphill to meet her demise. Innocence was no part of this. She knew her own recklessness and marveled, really, at how one hard little flint of thrill could outweigh the pillowy, suffocating aftermath of a long disgrace.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver – review
Climate change fears are given wings in Barbara Kingsolver's well observed Appalachian tale.
Attempting to escape her empty marriage and the drudgery of life on a rundown Appalachian farm, Dellarobia Turnbow heads for an assignation that accidentally transforms her life. En route to a tryst with a lover, she stumbles on a hillside covered with swathes of orange monarch butterflies that appear like fire on the landscape.
"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky."
The monarchs' majestic, and mysterious, appearance distracts Dellarobia from her illicit assignation and in the process, the would-be "Tennessee temptress" achieves internet fame as the discoverer of a phenomenon that confounds human understanding of butterfly migration. For monarchs to attempt to overwinter far from the heat of the south is unprecedented. Locals view their arrival as a message from God. Entomologist Ovid Byron, a gifted African-American researcher who comes to investigate, puts the blame on a very different agent: climate change.