![]() ![]() (Kingsolver says she got virtually all the novel’s first names from her own family tree.)ĭellarobia is one fascinating character. Dellarobia’s pregnancy ended in miscarriage, but now Dellarobia and Cub have two small children, a bright six-year-old son named Preston and a baby girl named Cordelia. ![]() She and Cub “had to get married” during their senior year in high school. The book is called Flight Behavior because small, red-haired Dellarobia, 28, is seeking ways to flee her stagnant and dead-end (as she sees it) marriage. ![]() I’ve read only a few of Kingsolver’s books, but of these the best and most significant so far are The Poisonwood Bible (about a missionary family in the Congo) and her most recent novel, Flight Behavior.įlight Behavior is the story of Dellarobia Turnbow and her family, who live in Appalachian Tennessee-the same general area where Kingsolver herself resides with her family. Her nonfiction includes Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. In her more substantial novels, she is a social-political observer and critic. Kingsolver writes fiction, but she is also a science and nature writer in both her fiction and nonfiction. (The review is still available on my website, ) ![]() She is particularly good at metaphors and similes, and at double or parallel meanings.Ī decade ago I reviewed her remarkable novel The Poisonwood Bible. One can learn a lot about writing just from carefully reading her superbly crafted work. 437 pp.īarbara Kingsolver is a fine writer. Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel. ![]()
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