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Book Salon
Flight Behavior

  • This month we're reading Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. Our faculty host is Noah Diffenbaugh.

    Listen to an interview with our Book Salon host.

    " The book our Resident Fellows assigned for my freshman dorm at Stanford (Granada!) was Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. I loved it, and was inspired to read most of her books. Now that I've grown up to be a climate scientist, her book about climate change brings me full-circle to my undergraduate years at Stanford."

    Noah Diffenbaugh, associate professor of earth sciences and senior fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment

How to Participate

Read the audio interview with Professor Noah Diffenbaugh

Chat with Professor Noah Diffenbaugh on climate change (scheduled for April 24, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. PST) 

Participate in this month's online discussion and interact with Stanford alumni around the world

About this quarter's book selection

Set in rural Appalachia, a young farmer’s wife is unexpectedly thrown into modern life and all its complexities when she comes across something she cannot explain, a lake the color of fire. Her discovery brings an array of visitors—religious leaders, climate scientists, tourists, environmentalists, and politicians—trapping her in conflict and ultimately exposing her to the challenges of the modern world.

Barbara Kingsolver tackles the subject of climate change and introduces her readers to the denial, the belief, and all feelings in between through the eyes of a young, but hardly innocent, woman from Appalachia.

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