by Barbara Kingsolver, 2012
Fictional account – Global warming causes the Monarch butterflies to migrate to Appalachia rather than Mexico. Dellarobia, young mother of two toddlers, living on a sheep farm with her husband and in-laws, hikes up the mountain behind her home to have a tryst but instead sees the millions of butterflies, so beautiful it floors her. She turns around and heads back down to her life. Religion, media, science all descend into her life. In the end, she decides to divorce her sweet husband, go to college. Pretty tedious book – Glad it’s over.