Flight Behavior: A Novel Summary
Barbara Kingsolver

Flight Behavior: A Novel Overview

Flight Behavior is a 2012 New York Times Bestselling novel by American author and poet Barbara Kingsolver. The narrative follows Dellarobia Turnbow, a 28-year-old unsatisfied housewife living on a farm in the mountains of rural Tennessee. While climbing the mountain behind her family's home in order to pursue an illicit affair, Dellarobia encounters a roost of monarch butterflies. This stunning event sets off the story of Dellarobia's search for herself and for freedom. Flight Behavior explores themes of climate change, faith, science, and reality.