Flight Behavior

Kingsolver is such a beautiful writer. Just check out the first line in this book: “A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.”

She wrote one of my favorite books ever (Poisonwood Bible.)

But. This one was just OK for me. I think it had potential, but the message was far too heavy handed, especially considering I was already familiar with a lot of the science she put in at length in this book, scattered around in bits and pieces of slow moving dialogue.

Besides the slowness, what really irked me about this book was how simple Kingsolver made the country folk. I don't think she intended to be condescending toward them–but it came off that way to me. A lot of the characters felt like backwoods stereotypes, which I don't think is necessarily accurate for many rural, farming families.