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Also by Barbara Kingsolver
FICTION
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Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
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The Bean Trees
ESSAYS
Small Wonder
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
POETRY
Another America
NONFICTION
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
(with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver)
Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands
(with photographs by Annie Griffiths Belt)
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Credits
Cover design and illustration by Robin Bilardello
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
FLIGHT BEHAVIOR. Copyright (c) 2012 by Barbara Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition (c) NOVEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062124289
Excerpt from "Now Is the Cool of the Day," by Jean Ritchie, is used by permission. (c) 1971 Geordie Music Publishing Co., all rights reserved.
An excerpt from this novel originally appeared in Orion, www.orionmagazine.org.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Flight behavior : a novel / by Barbara Kingsolver.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-212426-5 (Hardcover) 1. Women biologists--Fiction. 2. Curiosities and wonders--Fiction. 3. Tennessee--Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.I496F55 2012
813'.54--dc23
2012025321
12 13 14 15 16 OV/BVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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