Flight Behavior: Dellarobia's bildungsroman -- The innocence of The Bean Trees -- Pigs in Heaven and its interrogation -- Animal Dreams, a prototypical ecological novel -- The fiction of Kingsolver's non-novels -- Kingsolver as essayist: a different expertise -- Kingsolver as poet -- The Poisonwood Bible as apex -- The prodigality of Prodigal Summer -- Traveling to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life -- Small Wonder: staying alive and the Bellwether prizes -- The Lacuna -- Flight Behavior, our bildungsroman.