Flight Behavior

Short Review: I don't know how Kingsolver writes about such serious topics without it feeling like propaganda. Most ‘issue fiction' is very heavy handed. Kingsolver somehow write in a way that is about the art of the book and the serious topics just seem to give weight to the art instead of tearing the art down. This is a novel about global warming. But it is about people, not just a topic. An east TN woman is the main character. She is so tied up by her poverty, her oppressive life, and her mediocre marriage that she just wants to escape. Millions of Monarch butterflies come to her husband's family's land instead of their normal Mexican wintering grounds. For her and the butterflies life becomes unmoored.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/flight-behavior/