![]() ![]() Pregnant and married at 17, she is bright and a natural rebel. Twenty-eight year old Dellarobia Turnbow is a frustrated farmers’ wife with two young children, shopping in second-hand shops and watching every cent. Her latest novel, Flight Behavior, confronts a dirt-poor farming community in Tennessee with global warming and the potential destruction, not only of their livelihood, but of their very existence. The Lacuna (reviewed in Socialism Today No.141, September 2010) explored sexual diversity and political rebellion against the background of the anti-communist witch-hunts in the USA of the 1950s, and included a sympathetic portrait of Leon Trotsky. The Poisonwood Bible (1998), partly based on her childhood in the Congo, is set amid the anti-colonial struggle in that country. ![]() Flight Behavior By Barbara Kingsolver Published by Faber and Faber (2012), £18.99īarbara Kingsolver is familiar as a fine novelist whose work is extremely relevant for socialists. ![]()
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