Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver has won more literary awards than practically any contemporary author. She won the Orange Prize, a British award,  given to her novel The Lacuna as the best novel published in the English Language in 2009. In 2003, President Bill Clinton gave her the National Humanities Medal. Her novel The Poisonwood Bible was shortlisted for the Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner Award. This novel, Flight Behavior was one of her many New York Times bestsellers. Kingsolver grew up in Carlisle, Kentucky, and now lives in rural Washington County, Virginia. Flight Behavior is set on an East Tennessee farm. The protagonist, Dellarobia Turnbow, sees an apparently miraculous site - millions of butterflies almost filling a mountain valley - and then must deal with the dramatically varying responses of her community and beyond that mirror national responses to climate change. “Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies o