En cours de chargement...
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? "Flight Behaviour" is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.
The endless surprises of metamorphosis
The Monarch butterfly is an emblematic insect of North America, impressive in its migratory paths extending from Mexico all the way to Canada. Kingsolver aptly chooses this fragile creature as a means of illustrating the metamorphosis which Dellarobia experiences in her Appalachian wasteland following her fateful encounter with the charismatic Ovid. He is an entomologist who exposes the frustrated young mother to new ways of doing and thinking she could never have envisioned. An optimistic read, full of warmth and humanism.
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