On the Nightstand: Flight Behavior

Back in the day, I was a big Barbara Kingsolver fan–Prodigal Summer, Poisonwood Bible. But more recently, I’ve found her a bit preachy, and she’s fallen off my radar screen.

So I was delighted to find I’d missed 2012’s Flight Behavior, which sounds right up my alley. One newspaper called it “an intricate story that entwines considerations of faith and faithlessness, inquiry, denial, fear and survival in gorgeously conceived metaphor.” That’s what’s on my nightstand this month, and I’m hoping ...