José Saramago was an unapologetic libertarian communist, Garcia Marquez a socialist and anti-imperialist. The divide between politics and literature is broader in the United States than in many other countries. … I wanted the reader to have that experience of not being prepared, and so not understanding what you are seeing.” If people don’t understand how to see it they don’t see it. Kingsolver said, “In a broader sense that is the case with climate change.
I was going to have to teach people some basic physics, some basic biology, some population genetics, the difference between causation and correlation,” she said. She entered into the work, “knowing that I was going to have to educate the readers about a lot of science. Kingsolver, formally educated as a biologist and ecologist, is well-suited to tackle the science central to the novel.
They don’t have a lot of flights out, you could say.” Kingsolver, speaking from her home in southwestern Virginia, said “I live in southern Appalachia, I live among people like those in this novel who are very bound by their circumstances in terms of their choices in life. Scientists are drawn to the phenomena, but in a hardscrabble world environmental stewardship takes second place to putting food on the table. It is a side effect of climate change, and it hits across a class divide. This environmental miracle changes Dellarobia and all that she knows. Twisters of brightness against gray sky.” The sparks spiraled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. She is unable to make sense of the view revealed in the shifting light: “Trees turned to fire, a burning bush… The flame now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it’s poked. Vanity led her to leave her glasses at home. She also sees what she takes to be a strange fungus, “dangling like a bunch of grapes from every tree she could see.” Looking over the Appalachian valley, she sees a mountainside “loaded with these bristly things.” On the trail, she sees 100-year-old trees toppled because their roots can no longer gain purchase. Unseasonably heavy rains have turned the land into a fully loaded sponge. Much is expected and little is given in this passionless dance of child-rearing, ever-present in-laws and poverty. Her marriage, the result of an unplanned pregnancy, has devolved to a world over which she has no control. The story’s heart, Dellarobia Turnbow, is heading to adultery when hiking up an old logging road. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĬlimate change is no article of faith in Barbara Kingsolver’s latest work of fiction, “Flight Behavior.” She employs hard science, using it in ways both understandable and personal.
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