But their thought-patterns are entrenched: while weather is God's department, climate change is something people – Dellarobia included – "knew to be wary of". The God-fearing, moral-majority community of Featherstone can't avoid being affected by the disrupted seasons, and refers to the current endless rainfall as "water torture". In the process, she metamorphoses into the family breadwinner but becomes humiliatingly aware of the limited scope of the only world she has known. She is also smitten: "Every day she rose and rose to the occasion of this man." Hired as part of Ovid's team, Dellarobia gives up smoking and learns to identify and assess butterfly behaviour. The phenomenon turns out to be a vast flock of monarch butterflies, whose disrupted migration pattern has catapulted them wildly off course.Īs their "discoverer", Dellarobia achieves unasked-for internet fame, but it's the arrival of a team of entomologists led by Ovid Byron – African American, and from a parallel universe of education and plenty – that delivers the life change she has craved.
Trapped in a loveless shotgun marriage and mother to two young children, the sharp-witted Dellarobia Turnbow is planning to bolt from her lummox of a husband Cub, when she stumbles on an inexplicable vision on a mountainside slated for logging: a lake of orange fire. In Flight Behaviour, successor to the Orange prize-winning The Lacuna, she expands on the theme of deaf ears, blind eyes and belief-versus-evidence with the trademark human sympathy that has won her the devotion of readers worldwide. In The Poisonwood Bible, in which a Christian missionary sacrifices his family to his own zealotry in the Belgian Congo, her preoccupation is as much with self-delusion as it is with doctrine.
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