![]() ![]() ![]() As her horizons expand, she faces a choice between the status quo and, perhaps, personal fulfillment. Already restless in her marriage to the passive Cub, for whom she gave up college when she became pregnant at 17, unsophisticated, cigarette-addicted Dellarobia takes a mammoth leap when she starts working with the research team. Equally threatening is the fact that her father-in-law, Bear, has sold the land to loggers. But the arrival of a research team led by sexy scientist Ovid Byron reveals the troubling truth behind the butterflies’ presence: they’ve been driven by pollution from their usual Mexican winter grounds and now face extinction due to northern hemisphere temperatures. ![]() The sight that young wife and mother Dellarobia Turnbow comes upon-millions of monarch butterflies glowing like a “lake of fire” in a sheep pasture owned by her in-laws-is immediately branded a miracle, and promises a lucrative tourist season for the financially beleaguered Turnbows. Set in a rural Tennessee that has endured unseasonal rain, the plot explores the effects of a bizarre biological event on a Bible Belt community. With her powerful new novel, Kingsolver (The Lacuna) delivers literary fiction that conveys an urgent social message. ![]()
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