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murielm99

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11. I am reading "Flight Behavior,"
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 02:21 PM
Aug 2019

by Barbara Kingsolver. It is not a new book. I missed it when it came out in 2012.

In this book, the monarch butterflies, instead of spending the winter near Angangueo, Mexico, migrate to a small, troubled farm in Appalachia. The restless young farm wife who discovers them regards this as a miracle. The town and the farm are inundated with tourists, journalists and scientists. The theme, of course, is climate change.

Of course this did not happen. It is a fictional event. But Kingsolver presents the events, the truth of climate change and how we react to it in a brilliant manner. I am glad I got around to this book finally!

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