![]() Dellarobia glories in her long, straight red hair, which her lover-to-be describes as "somewhere between a stop sign and sunset. Kingsolver opens "Flight Behavior" in a frenzy, as Dellarobia Turnbow, a one-time rebel girl with two young children and a husband hopelessly browbeaten by his mother, rushes up a mountain hollow to a tryst with a younger man. ![]() "Flight Behavior," her provocative eighth, imagines global warming shifting the traditional winter habitat of monarch butterflies from a mountaintop village in Mexico to an Appalachian valley. ![]() Barbara Kingsolver has gained a loyal readership and much critical praise for her emotionally resonant, socially aware novels. ![]()
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