Dellarobia is desperate to escape her dull existence. Feeling trapped by an early shot-gun wedding and two small children, she is ready to flee. But suddenly her life is transformed by a strange new phenomenon on the mountain in Tennessee where her family lives--the unnatural arrival of millions of monarch butterflies. Beautiful and quickly seen by the locals as something wonderful brought to the region by a benevolent God, it is viewed as disastrous by the scientist who comes to investigate. This books examines our threatened physical environment, a community overwhelmed by poverty and a woman who realized that there can be more to her life than what she has seen so far.
I listened to this title as an audio book. I was concerned at first when I realized that the author would be narrating her own work. But I needn't have been. Kingsolver does a wonderful job at bringing Dellarobia to life.
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