Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless young farm wife in rural Tennessee, climbs a mountain intending to throw her life away and instead finds the forest ablaze with millions of monarch butterflies that have wintered in the wrong place. As scientists, reporters and a skeptical congregation descend on her family's land, her marriage, faith and sense of the future are all put to the test.
Books mentioned in Flight Behavior (4)
Ulysses by James Joyce: “he knew the difference between Homer’s Ulysses and the one by James Joyce, and how to get down to business with a metaphor”
King Lear by William Shakespeare: ““Preston was my dad’s name,” Dellarobia offered. “And Cordelia is from King Lear. Of course!” Tina …”
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: “the hooded skeleton pointing at gravestones that scared the bejesus out of her in childhood. A library book, Charles Dickens. But that was the Yet to Come ghost”
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light. That was the end of a poem, brought to her by the one bright spot in her education, Mrs. Lake”
Books that mention Flight Behavior (1)
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior.”