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May 13, 2015sharon711 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Dellarobia is a woman in crisis. Living in the deep south, and from a poor family, she missed out on the education she hoped for when she got pregnant at 17. Life limps on for her, as the wife of a sheep farmer and daughter-in-law of the farm’s owners. Dellarobia feels she is living on a dead-end street. Everything changes for her when she has a vision, discovering a fire of insects on the mountain behind her farmhouse. Migrating monarchs have turned up inexplicably, displaced from their eons-old wintering spot in Mexico. The butterflies bring a world-renown lepidopterist, a new fascination with science, and a job to her door. As she discovers what all this means for her and her family, Dellarobia wakes up to a world of opportunities. While Dellarobia discovers herself, we, the readers, discover some unhappy truths about the state of the world and our position in it. What lesson can we take from this novel? Plant milkweed!