![]() ![]() ![]() Is this a vision from God? Or a human-made disruption of nature? Of both?įollowing The Lacuna (2009), a novelization of the relationship between artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico, Barbara Kingsolver explores the life of Dellarobia Turnbow in Flight Behavior(2012), as Kingsolver explains: Except there is no fire, only a billow of orange spread out beneath her. The hike is taxing-she struggles without her glasses (left behind out of vanity) and with her incessant craving for a cigarette-but before she meets her would-be young lover, she encounters what appears to be the entire valley below her in flames. ![]() Years later, living on the farm owned by her in-laws and now the mother of two children, she walks up a mountain on that land to a rendezvous with adultery. A young woman in the Appalachian hills of the rural South finds herself pregnant far too young and marries her high school sweetheart, only to lose the child. ![]()
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