Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver

They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

They built their tidy houses of self-importance and special blessing and went inside and slammed the door, unaware the mountain behind them was aflame.

But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.

up for football players, which basically required a

If people played their channels right, they could be spared from disagreement for the length of their natural lives. Finally she got it. The need for so many channels.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from everything that comes next.

People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.