Thursday, November 15, 2018

"Flight Behavior" reviews

Following up on Teya's Flight Behavior report:

I was curious about the reviews it had received. Mostly strong reviews from Goodreads readers-
Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire...
and The New Yorker-
“Flight Behavior” ends dramatically, with the monarchs miraculously surviving the harsh snowstorms and leaving Tennessee like “an airborne zootic force flying out in formation, as if to war.” But, even as the butterflies fly out, Dellarobia’s house is washed away in a giant flood. The conclusion reflects Kingsolver’s own reservations about the possibility of Washington seriously tackling climate change. She has been happier with the steps that the President has taken in his second term, though, after what she regarded as a disappointing first. “Would that we could always be served by politicians who don’t plan to be reëlected,” she said.
and The Guardian-
Kingsolver's masterly evocation of an age – ours, here, now – stumbling wilfully blind towards the abyss is an elegy not just for the endangered monarch butterfly, but for the ambitious, flawed species that conjured the mass extinction of which its loss is a part. Urgent issues demand important art. Flight Behaviour rises – with conscience and majesty – to the occasion of its time.
Among others.

Maybe y'all would like to take a look at the reviews of your books, too, and pass along some of the critical community's judgments along with your own.

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