When Dellarobia Turnbow first sees the massive colony of monarch butterflies that have invaded her Tennessee mountain home, she takes them for a sign not to follow through on the risky affair she was about to start. To others in her small community, they’re a sign from God, and to the scientists who come to study them, they’re a sign of a systemic breakdown. Certainly, they’re a sign of change–from the global scope of climate change, to the small personal changes in the life that Dellarobia chooses for herself. Newly released in paperback.

—Helen of Harbor Books, Old Saybrook

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