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Barbara Kingslover's voice has been resonating high and loud for over a decade now as she put her vast life experience to good use as an author, touching the sorts of depths in her works many of her peers shy away from. The Poisonwood Bible is a novel many consider to be her magnum opus (so far), and it follows an evangelical Baptist and his family as they set out on a mission to the Belgian Congo amidst its immense political turmoil in 1959.

In Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingslover we follow the story of a young and bored woman by the name of Dellarobia Turnbow, living in rural Tennessee. One day, in an attempt to escape the boredom plaguing her life, she makes her way up the mountain behind her husband’s farm and stumbles into what is known as the “Valley of Fire”, where she sees millions of monarch butterflies. The local parish is very quick to label this event as being truly miraculous and a sign of great things to come. When a scientist makes his way to the quaint little town to study the phenomenon, he makes an alarming discovery: the butterflies could be a sign of an impending natural disaster.