I remember reading a story, possibly by Tobias Wolff, about a man and his wife who have constructed a sort of ideal, back to the land sort of existence. The narrator works at a local farm with horses. One day the narrator's son lights the employer's barn on fire, killing these beautiful horses, and the father returns to working in the city at a job he hates, his family dissolved. It's just one of those painful Tobias Wolff stories designed to make you feel miserable, and yet I can't locate it or the title!