![]() ![]() Already restless in her marriage to the passive Cub, for whom she gave up college when she became pregnant at 17, unsophisticated, cigarette-addicted Dellarobia takes a mammoth leap when she starts working with the research team. Equally threatening is the fact that her father-in-law, Bear, has sold the land to loggers. But the arrival of a research team led by sexy scientist Ovid Byron reveals the troubling truth behind the butterflies’ presence: they’ve been driven by pollution from their usual Mexican winter grounds and now face extinction due to northern hemisphere temperatures. The sight that young wife and mother Dellarobia Turnbow comes upon-millions of monarch butterflies glowing like a “lake of fire” in a sheep pasture owned by her in-laws-is immediately branded a miracle, and promises a lucrative tourist season for the financially beleaguered Turnbows. ![]() Set in a rural Tennessee that has endured unseasonal rain, the plot explores the effects of a bizarre biological event on a Bible Belt community. With her powerful new novel, Kingsolver (The Lacuna) delivers literary fiction that conveys an urgent social message. ![]()
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