![]() ![]() ![]() Bear signs a contract with a logging company to clear-cut the mountain where Dellarobia saw the flame-colored phenomenon. Because of the collapsed economy and terrible weather that ruined the year's hay crop, the farm is failing under an equipment loan. Without her glasses she can't see what it is, but her religious upbringing makes her think it is a sign that she is making a bad decision and she returns home to her husband Cub and young children, Preston and Cordelia.ĭellarobia and Cub share their property with Cub's parents, Hester and Bear. Yet as she climbs the mountain on the back part of the family farm to meet her potential lover, she sees an epic vision of orange covering the trees and flying into the sky across a valley on another ridge. ![]() One November day she finally feels ready to throw it all away for an affair with a young telephone repairman. Dellarobia Turnbow was born and raised in Feathertown, Tennessee in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and feels trapped in her rural, mommy life and shotgun marriage. ![]()
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