![]() ![]() ROYAL YOUNG: What happens when people crave destruction in their lives?īARBARA KINGSOLVER: The first sentence of a book is a promise. We spoke with Kingsolver about delicious destruction, brain juice, miracles, climate change, and honesty. Flight Behavior is steeped in both the excitement of self-destruction and the beauty of self-preservation is here: the awesome forces of nature that can cause us to call into question how we have been living our lives and strike us out on paths of change. Holy, stubborn, haunting, and earthy, Kingsolver writes a brilliant book about a world struggling against our own human nature. When her world is invaded by journalists, scientists, religious leaders, and sight seekers, Dellarobia struggles to hold on to the honest clarity her initial vision brought her. After her spiritual seeing, Dellarobia cannot un-see: the wrong of her ways, the evils of her town, the hypocrisy of her church, the battles in her husband’s family. Dellarobia, a farmer’s wife in rural Appalachia, is on her way to have secret sex with her lover when she witnesses a valley of trees on a mountainside bathed in a lake of fire. IMAGE COURTESY OF DAVID WOODīarbara Kingsolver’s latest novel, Flight Behavior (Harper Collins) is full of miracles. ![]()
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