The unhappy, child-encumbered housewife-trapped-in-stale-marriage almost certainly has the dubious honour of being both the most-experienced and (until the 20th century) least-written plot in Western literature. I understand why it’s important, but sometimes it feels like every novelist discovered it all at once and wants to lend her (or his) “unique” “perspective”. For that reason (TWIST!) it was a rare pleasure to encounter a book that explored the issue from an ACTUAL unique perspective. You might be aware of the synopsis (it was, after all, on the bestseller list): the bulk of the North American population of migrating monarch butterflies, which usually overwinters in Mexico, mysteriously turns up on the side of a mountain in Tennessee instead, on the farm of the Turnbow family. Continue reading Flight Behavior