SEASONS OF FLIGHT

?Manjushree Th apa?s Seasons of Flight is many things?a love story an immigrant?s tale a matter-of-fact telling of the costs of war a manifesto for environmental conservation a meditation on faith and chance. A [novel] could sag under the burden of such weighty themes but Th apa pulls them together fl awlessly.??India Today Prema a young woman adrift in war-torn Nepal with little to bind her to her family village and country wins a green card in a US government lottery and emigrates to Los Angeles. In this unfamiliar metropolis she struggles to invent a life she can call her own even as love and sexual awakening transform her. And in the end a chance discovery?of the endangered El Segundo Blue butterfl y?brings her to a fragile sense of belonging.