![]() ![]() She’s trying to shake loose from the roots of her lethargic culture. Dellarobia, whose dreams of leaving Feathertown to go to college were thwarted by a teen pregnancy, is her Blue State-thinking stand-in. Kingsolver, who was raised in nearby Kentucky, spends much of the 400-plus pages of this book wagging her finger at poor white people. ![]() But after just a chapter or two, the novel’s true purpose becomes clear - it’s a Blue State morality tale about Red State people and Red State thinking. A strong female protagonist with a complicated recent past, for example, and extended, dreamy descriptions of a shifting natural landscape. “Flight Behavior” has many of the trappings of a work of literary fiction. ![]() “The whole earth, if you want to know,” she says. “They said it means something’s really gone wrong,” she tells her husband, Cub. When a group of lepidopterists alights in Feathertown, Dellarobia learns the dark secret behind the appearance of those millions of feathery creatures. ![]()
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