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Our April book, in connection with Earth Day, is Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.
Although written a number of years ago now (at least in reference to how our first-person/lived understanding of climate change has evolved), this 2012 novel, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, has important and increasingly relevant things to say about the natural world as well as about conflict and anger sometimes being a product of critical thinking, care, and compassion.
Kingsolver's novel follows Dellarobia Turnbow in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee. Dellarobia is a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive flirtation with a handsome younger man.
However rather than further box herself into her life, happenstance connected to this flirtation leads to a discovery of migratory patterns of butterflies impacting her home community in Appalachia, and an ensuing series of confrontations between her and her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large occurs.
We hope you'll join us to discuss the book if you're available; books are available for pick-up upon request to third-floor MLK staff within a month of the program date.
