Soon, the family believes Dellarobia was sent by God with her vision. It’s more disturbing - and freakishly unnatural - than she could have imagined.
One day the in-laws, her husband, and the rest of the family trek to the mountain top and see the spectacle. When she learns the forest is to be clear-cut for logging, she convinces her father-in-law to survey the land first. It had to mean something.” She believes it’s a miracle.ĭellarobia returns to her life but doesn’t talk about her vision of the trees alight with orange. It looked like the inside of joy, if a person could see that,” Kingsolver writes. “Unearthly beauty had appeared to her, a vision of glory to stop her in the road. Dellarobia peers through an overlook on the path and is struck by the sight of the entire forest glowing with millions of orange monarch butterflies. Before she reaches her rendezvous point, nature delivers a jolt. An unhappy homemaker, Dellarobia Turnbow, sets out on a wet slog to meet a man for a tryst on a mountain near her rural home. The story opens in Appalachia just after a relentlessly rainy summer and autumn. Seldom have a theme and an accomplished fiction writer been so well suited for each other. With Flight Behavior, she has arrived at a storytelling form that underscores her intellect as a scientist while revealing her skill at creating compelling characters, environmental drama, and lyrical prose. Before she devoted her career to writing, she had earned degrees in biology and had worked as a scientist. Kingsolver lived and wrote for years in Arizona before returning to live on her family farm in southern Appalachia.
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