![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trapped in a loveless shotgun marriage and mother to two young children, the sharp-witted Dellarobia Turnbow is planning to bolt from her lummox of a husband Cub, when she stumbles on an inexplicable vision on a mountainside slated for logging: a lake of orange fire. In Flight Behaviour, successor to the Orange prize-winning The Lacuna, she expands on the theme of deaf ears, blind eyes and belief-versus-evidence with the trademark human sympathy that has won her the devotion of readers worldwide. In The Poisonwood Bible, in which a Christian missionary sacrifices his family to his own zealotry in the Belgian Congo, her preoccupation is as much with self-delusion as it is with doctrine. ![]()
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