![]() ![]() “But,” she added, “I decided that would be fortuitous.” ![]() As for the resemblance between the President and her novel’s scientist hero, Kingsolver says that she had “completely constructed the character of Ovid” before the likeness struck her. ![]() “And to help things along, I sent a copy of ‘Flight Behavior’ to Michelle Obama.” A farmer-novelist, Kingsolver lives with her family in a forest valley in Meadowview, Virginia, “surrounded by farms and by coal mines,” growing her own food and, like the protagonist of “Flight Behavior,” raising lambs. “I always hope for the best, in the department of life imitating art,” Kingsolver recently explained over e-mail. The bookish among them may have also noticed a literary echo in the encouraging news: the totemic orange-and-black North American butterfly is the cause célèbre of Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel, “Flight Behavior,” which happens to feature a tall, thin, Harvard-educated, African-American scientist named Ovid Byron, who bears a striking resemblance to the President, down to his inverted initials. ![]() Environmental activists, deeply concerned by the monarch’s alarming decline, applauded the move. Back in February, the Obama Administration committed $3.2 million toward saving the monarch butterfly. ![]()
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