RaveThe Seattle TimesFlight Behavior is an intricate story that entwines considerations of faith and faithlessness, inquiry, denial, fear and survival in gorgeously conceived metaphor. Specifically, it is a novel about global climate change and how it comes home to roost in one rural community in the mountains of eastern Tennessee. In the story, it has been a winter of unprecedented weather conditions. It is also the winter of Dellarobia's discontent … Kingsolver juxtaposes science and religion, tradition and deviation, and arrivals and departures, using incisive but sympathetic character development. Even Dellarobia's initially trenchant point of view gradually shifts to having compassion for those whose lives are stunted by economic or educational paucity.
