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Flight Behavior : A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver; Barbara Kingsolver is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Flight Behavior : A Novel about?

Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction. Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. As she hikes up a mountain road behind her house to a secret tryst, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acq

Who reads Flight Behavior : A Novel?

Author

Barbara Kingsolver; Barbara Kingsolver

Publisher

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062124302

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Western, Literary Collections

Rating

3.76 / 5 (58,112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14