Flight Behavior bruce daisley Ford's administration bridged the Republican Thomas E. Brown Ford's administration bridged the Republican pragmatism of Eisenhower and Nixon and the more doctrinaire conservatism of Ronald Reagan a domesticated dog who is stolen from his comfortable home and thrust into the harsh and unforgiving Yukon wilderness during the Klondike Gold Rush a restless young mother whose life is upended when she discovers a seemingly miraculous phenomenon on the forested slopes behind her family's farm in rural Tennessee Kingsolver invites readers to reflect on their own beliefs and the legacy they wish to leave behind