![]() ![]() It is a story steeped in biblical metaphor: the monarch butterflies transform the land as if "trees have turned to fire, a burning bush" lambs are raised for slaughter, the Turnbows' principal business as farmers and ultimately the onset of spring soaks the land in a flood of Old Testament proportions. Entomologist Ovid Byron, a gifted African-American researcher who comes to investigate, puts the blame on a very different agent: climate change.īyron hires Dellarobia to help him to make sense of the strange apparition on her land and in the process of learning how to help him, she acquires a self-confidence she had been denied by her lack of education and by her poverty. Locals view their arrival as a message from God. ![]() For monarchs to attempt to overwinter far from the heat of the south is unprecedented. The monarchs' majestic, and mysterious, appearance distracts Dellarobia from her illicit assignation and in the process, the would-be "Tennessee temptress" achieves internet fame as the discoverer of a phenomenon that confounds human understanding of butterfly migration. ![]()
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