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\"flight-behavior\"<\/a>There are not many secular books that bring Christianity and climate change (amongst other things) together but “Flight Behaviour” by Barabara Kingsolver is one.\u00a0 I recently came across\u00a0 this book and thought it looked interesting.\u00a0 In “Flight Behaviour” the chief protagonist Dellarobia (who was trapped into a shotgun marriage to a dull but likeable husband) is on her way up to a remote hut in the Tennessee mountains to commit adultery with someone she barely knows.\u00a0 She is is stopped in her tracks by millions of Monarch butterflies who it turns out have migrated to the wrong place due to climate change.
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Before long Dellarobia<\/span>‘s church, the local town, climate activists, sightseers and scientists are all involved in the story of the butterflies.\u00a0 Science, faith and family secrets all unfold.\u00a0 For someone who does not claim to be a Christian Kingsolver writes fairly convincingly about the church the family attend which I realised after a bit is an emerging or emergent church (cannot remember the difference).\u00a0 She also writes convincingly about the inside of a lab and the science involved.\u00a0 It turns out she studied a scientific degree and briefly worked as scientist.<\/p>\n

I read Kingsolver’s factual\u00a0 “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” which was brilliant. \u00a0 Did I enjoy “Flight Behaviour”?\u00a0 I’m not sure its a book you are supposed to enjoy. \u00a0 It could have been shorter.\u00a0 I had to read it in small chunks, although its an easy read I found the subject matter heavy going.\u00a0 The characters are believable, Dellarobia<\/span>‘s best friend Dovey is priceless.\u00a0 I fear its portrayal of small town Southern State America and its suspicion of outsiders, science in general and climate change in particular- was accurate; and its portrayal of the cynical media.\u00a0 Other than climate change there is a little bit of mention of energy security, but not peak oil per se<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One bizarre aspect of the book was the strange character names.\u00a0 Have you met anyone called Ovid, especially from the US Virgin Islands?\u00a0 Finally flight Behaviour refers not just to the butterflies but is a metaphor for other aspects of the characters in the book.\u00a0 I’d give it 6.5\/10, not a book to cheer you up with hopeful escapism, but a worthwhile read all the same.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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