There, they too are struck by the ocean of gold that covers the woodland. They agree and make a joint outing to witness her vision firsthand. Dellarobia argues that they should walk the land one more time before selling off the rights to the forest. She returns to discover her in-laws, Bear and Hester, finalizing a deal with a logging company to clear-cut the very groves where she has had her vision. Shaken, Dellarobia turns around and heads back down the mountain, burning for a chance to share her revelation. Before she meets the rendezvous point, however, she encounters a vision of surpassing beauty: a familiar valley suddenly ablaze with an otherworldly color, a lake of golden fire. Dellarobia Turnbow knows that this act could end her marriage to Cub and irrevocably alter her life with two young children, but she appears ready to forge ahead. In the opening of Kingsolver’s new novel, Flight Behavior, a young, unhappily married woman hikes up a mountain on her in-laws’ property in East Tennessee for a tryst with a younger man.
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