New York Times Bestseller
Indie Bestseller
Barnes & Noble Bestseller
National Bestseller
Amazon Best Book of the Month
Indie Next Pick
Best Book of the Year: New York Times Notable, Washington Post
Notable, Amazon Editor's Choice, USA Today's Top Ten (#1), St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star
Prize-winning author: Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace
Prize (Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award), Orange
Prize for Fiction
Prize-winning Author: National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize
Finalist, Orange Prize for Fiction, Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Richard
C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award)
"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words."
--Time
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna
(winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
returns with a truly stunning and unforgettable work. Flight Behavior
is a brilliant and suspenseful novel set in present day Appalachia; a
breathtaking parable of catastrophe and denial that explores how the
complexities we inevitably encounter in life lead us to believe in our
particular chosen truths. Kingsolver's riveting story concerns a young
wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee who experiences
something she cannot explain, and how her discovery energizes various
competing factions--religious leaders, climate scientists,
environmentalists, politicians--trapping her in the center of the
conflict and ultimately opening up her world. Flight Behavior is
arguably Kingsolver's must thrilling and accessible novel to date, and
like so many other of her acclaimed works, represents contemporary
American fiction at its finest.
