Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

All roads in her marriage led to this, the feeling she’d stepped into Cub’s life to take over where Hester left off, and that was the most wretched thought of her day.

Dellarobia realized this was true, exactly. The last generation’s worst fears became the next one’s B-grade entertainment.

Dellarobia felt an entirely new form of panic as she watched her son love nature so expectantly, wondering if he might be racing toward a future like some complicated sand castle that was crumbling under the tide.