![]() ![]() The local church congregation, including Dellarobia’s mother-in-law, Hester, embraces the butterflies’ arrival as a sign of grace. The butterflies have landed in Tennessee because their usual winter habitat in Mexico has been flooded out. Soon after, Dellarobia leads her sweet if dim husband, Cub, to the butterflies, and they become public knowledge. ![]() ![]() ![]() She skips the tryst, but her life changes in unexpected ways. Now 27, feeling stifled by the responsibility of two young children she loves and a husband she tolerates, Dellarobia is heading to her first adulterous tryst when she happens upon a forested valley taken over by a host of brilliant orange butterflies that appear at first like a silent fire. A young woman discovers her rural Tennessee community has been invaded by monarch butterflies in this effective tear-jerker cum environmental jeremiad from Kingsolver ( The Lacuna, 2009, etc.).Īt 17, English honor student Dellarobia thought she would escape a future of grim rural poverty by attending college. ![]()
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