Book about a woman, climate change, and monarch butterflies.

From the book jacket: "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 acquaintance with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome. As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town, and a larger world, in a flight toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed.

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world."

From the review in the Guardian by Liz Jensen: "Kingsolver's masterly evocation of an age – ours, here, now – stumbling wilfully blind towards the abyss is an elegy not just for the endangered monarch butterfly, but for the ambitious, flawed species that conjured the mass extinction of which its loss is a part. Urgent issues demand important art. Flight Behaviour rises – with conscience and majesty – to the occasion of its time."

A quote from the book:
`Terrible, beautiful, it's not our call,' Ovid said. 'We are scientists. Our job here is only to describe what exists. But we are also human. We like these butterflies, you know?'

Here's the review in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/11/flight-behaviour-barbara-kingsolver-review

Dit boek waarin vlinders (in het bijzonder de monarchvlinder) een grote rol spelen, is thematisch vrijgelaten in het mooie Vlinderkamp van de IVN in Eelde. Het boek is neergelegd vlak naast de geplastificeerde kaart met vlindersoorten.

Toen ik een uur later weer kwam kijken, was het boek al weg.

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