Format:
Book
Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Title:
Flight behavior : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Harper, c2012.
Description:
436 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
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.
Subjects:
Climatic changes -- Fiction.
Curiosities and wonders -- Fiction.
Wives -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Biologists -- Fiction.
Women biologists -- Fiction.
Tennessee -- Fiction.
Appalachian Mountains -- Fiction.
Genre:
Thrillers (Fiction)
LCCN:
2012025321
ISBN:
9780062124265 (hardcover)
0062124269 (hardcover)
Other Number:
778416501
System Availability:
93
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
733622
Call Number:
813/.54
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
87