The biological oddity attracts widespread attention, and theories about its cause range from an act of God to a world gone haywire from climate change.
Dr. Ovid Byron, a butterfly expert, comes to Feathertown and sets up a temporary lab to study the insects.
Dellarobia, prevented from attending college by a shot-gun marriage at age 17, gets a job helping Dr. Byron and becomes engrossed in the research. This, in turn, magnifies the tediousness and poverty of Dellarobia's everyday life.
The book is partly a treatise on the dire consequences of climate change, and partly a character study of the Feathertown people, who tend to reject scientific explanations for changes in nature, regarding them as God's will.
The book didn't have a strong plot in the usual sense but the characters were interesting and the dangers of climate change were boldly drawn.
It's not my favorite Barbara Kingsolver book, but it's well-written and worth reading.
Rating: 3 stars
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