November 8, 2012 7:30 PM
A Evening with Barbara Kingsolver
Washington National Cathedral, in partnership with Politics & Prose Bookstore, announces an evening with one of America’s most perceptive novelists, Barbara Kingsolver. The evening will be her first public presentation following the publication of her fourteenth novel, Flight Behavior (HarperCollins). Continuing her keen analysis of the state of human life on a fragile planet, Flight Behavior explores the timely theme of climate change, along with the media exploitation and political opportunism that lie at the root of what may be our most urgent modern dilemma. In the novel, set in a small town in Tennessee, a young woman happens upon a forested valley filled with silent red fire. Her attempt to share the wonder and find an explanation throws her into a spiraling confrontation with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.