Barbara Kingsolver is one of the few authors whose books I just have to have-even when they are still in hardback. Sadly, I was very disappointed with her latest offering, Flight Behavior.
This novel tells the story of the Monarch butterflies changing their migration for the first time in thousands of years and landing in a forest in Appalachia. The whole book is a warning about Global Warming. Although this is a real problem, and I feel strongly about this issue, as Kingsolver does, it didn't make for good reading. The book was preachy and depressing and a far cry from her fantastic novels like ThePoisonwood Bible.
I wish Kingsolver had taken on this subject in a book of non-fiction essays, rather than try to frame it in a novel. It just didn't work for me.
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