Flight Behavior, published in 2012, explores a young woman's life as a housewife in fictional Feathertown, Tennessee. Dellarobia Turnbow quickly attracts both local and national attention after discovering a large colony of monarch butterflies in the fields behind her family's home. The discovery brings Ovid Byron, a distinguished ecologist, to the town, where he begins to study the butterflies and reveals how their behavior is related to climate change. Over the course of the novel, Dellarobia must confront her ongoing dissatisfaction with her marriage, her relationship to education, and her future aspirations—topics that are brought to the forefront by Ovid's arrival in Feathertown....
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