Sky Daddy
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Sky Daddy
Sky Daddy
For fans of The New Me and The Pisces, the hilarious and surprisingly uplifting story of a woman whose one desire is to unite forever with a plane in a crash.
The debut novel from the acclaimed author of Out There
Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird.
RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH
Get your boarding pass out and get ready for some turbulence. Sky Daddy is insane.
GARY SHTEYNGART, author of OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS
This book is a dog whistle for the true freaks - never have I felt so seen! I loved it.
RITA BULLWINKEL, author of Booker Prize-longlisted HEADSHOT
Breathtakingly audacious . . . a beauteous, drolly funny joy ride.
LING MA, author of Severance
Buckle up, it's one hell of a ride.
LITERARY HUB, Most anticipated books for 2025
Linda makes $20 an hour as a content moderator, flagging comments that violate a tech conglomerate's terms and conditions. Each night, she returns to the windowless room in a garage that she rents from a family who pretend she isn't there.
But once a month, she escapes to San Francisco International Airport for a clandestine meeting on the cheapest flight out that night. Linda's secret is that she's sexually attracted to planes: their intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages and powerful engines make her feel a way that no human lover ever could.
Linda believes her destiny is to someday 'marry' one of her suitors by dying in a plane crash, a catastrophic event that would unite her with her soulmate plane for eternity. So when her co-worker Karina invites her to join a group of women using vision boards to manifest their desires, she can't resist the chance to hasten her romantic fate. However, as the vision boards seem to manifest items more quickly—and more literally—than Linda had expected, the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of her control, and she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy or launching herself headlong towards her greatest dream.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399700221
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Kate Folk is the author of the short story collection Out There. She has written for publications including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and Zyzzyva. She's received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recently, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. She lives in San Francisco.
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