This is definitely a book that most people would like, but from my rating you can probably tell that it's not my cup of tea. :)
Dellarobia is a tiny mother of two who lives in a mortgaged house with a kind husband. They live on her in-law's land, and so they have little control or say in most decisions. I understand that Dellarobia is frustrated and underutilized. I get it.
Basically, at the begining of the book, she's planning on cheating on her husband, but she finds a roost of Monarch butterflies that makes her change her mind. Then science happens (my favorite part of the book!), and then Dellarobia decides to leave her husband and go to school.
So my breakdown.
I liked:
*Science!
*Oh, I also really enjoyed Dellarobia's relationship with her kids.
*Cub is a person I can understand.
Things I didn't like:
*Dovey, Dellabrobia's best friend, just seemed to be tacked on. Her only personality traits were that she dated a different guy every week, and she found church-y sayings to be very interesting.
*Flight Behavior is more than a little bit preachy about climate change.
*There are revelations near the end of the book that, while interesting and helped the reader to understand certain characters better, was kind of pointless when placed in the last few chapters. Hester's exposition would have been much more interesting earlier on.
So, while reading Flight Behavior, I was also reading [b:The Movement of Stars|15815363|The Movement of Stars|Amy Brill|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1350922610s/15815363.jpg|21541859] and [b:Calling Me Home|15793184|Calling Me Home|Julie Kibler|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1359803797s/15793184.jpg|21515148]. It was odd, because there were quite a few similarities in these three books:
*All three dealt with racial tensions, TMOTS and CMH were both in a romantic context.
*All three dealt with breaking free from families and expectations placed upon women. (Not that I'm surprised, a lot of good 'chick lit' has this theme)
*None of the love stories worked out.
*FP and TMOTS both entail a woman making a contribution to science.
*All three have at least one scene in a church (although the difference between the churches is stark)
Out of the three, I would recommend Calling Me Home the most.