The religious Turnbows share this knowledge at their church, and the vision is declared akin to a miracle by the pastor.īear is not convinced that this is God’s work, and because his family desperately needs the money, he pushes on with the logging project. The entire family heads up the trail and is awestruck by the sight of the bright orange and black insects filling their forest and valley. When Dellarobia finds out that her father-in-law, Bear Turnbow, plans to sell the land where the butterflies had roosted to a logging company, she encourages her husband to look the land over first. Believing this is a sign, Dellarobia decides not to pursue the affair and returns to her home a changed woman. As she grows resentful and bored of her life as a stay-at-home mom and farmer’s wife, she decides on an act of self-destruction, only to be stopped in her tracks by an fantastic sight: thousands upon thousands of monarch butterflies are hanging from the trees at the top of the High Road trail.
When she was seventeen and pregnant, her shotgun marriage to Cub Turnbow seemed to cement her future. Desperate to do something to sabotage the marriage she is trapped in, Dellarobia sees adultery as a means by which to express her unhappiness.
The novel begins as Dellarobia strides up the family’s mountain path to meet up with a man she plans to sleep with.
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