Sky Daddy
'Truly original, deeply weird' - Daily Telegraph
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Beschreibung des Verlags
'A full-throttle thrill: strap in!'
Daily Mail
A CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE.
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, VOX, OPRAH DAILY, VULTURE, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, ELECTRIC LIT, DEBUTIFUL, BOOK RIOT, PEN AMERICA, AND THE SKINNY
'Batty and brilliant'
THE TIMES
'Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird'
RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH
'Wonderfully weird and worryingly convincing'
CHARLOTTE MENDELSON, author of THE EXHIBITIONIST
'A little bit JG Ballard, a little bit Ottessa Moshfegh'
DAILY MAIL
Linda tries her best to lead a normal life. But once a month she escapes to the airport to secretly indulge in her true passion: Linda is sexually attracted to planes, and believes it is her destiny to someday marry one by dying in a fiery crash.
When the opportunity arises to hasten her romantic fate, Linda must choose between the trappings of an ordinary life and succumbing to her deepest desires.
'A dog whistle for the true freaks - never have I felt so seen! I loved it'
RITA BULLWINKEL, author of the Booker Prize-longlisted HEADSHOT
Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready for this year's wildest ride
'I've never related more to a fictional character'
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'Best book I've read in a few years!'
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'I hate how much I love this book'
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'Weird and different and clever and beautiful and moving and funny and I honestly can't recommend it enough'
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'It rearranged my brain a little bit'
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'The most surprising read of the year so far . . . embrace the weirdness'
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'Weird, but in amazing ways'
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Folk (Out There, a story collection) fuses Moby-Dick with J.G. Ballard's Crash for a blistering debut novel about a woman's sexual and mortal obsession with airplanes. "Call me Linda," begins the narrator, who rides the AirTrain around San Francisco's airport to lust after fuselage and marvel at wingspans when she's not busy toiling as a content moderator for a social media platform. Her job entails training the AI that will eventually replace her, but she's not worried about the future, so long as she can fulfill her dream of "marriage" to a plane (she hopes to consummate her passion with a "big boy" passenger jet in a fiery crash, "a carnage that would meld our souls for eternity"). Recognizing that her plan might take time, given the low probability of plane crashes and her limited funds for air travel, she tries dating pilots, the next best thing, and her spirits briefly soar after she finds pilotdate.net. Unfortunately, her only matches are bots and imposters, causing her to swear off men in favor of a plane's "aluminum embrace." Still, while on a flight to Houston, she's turned on enough by the jet's "girthy central spine" to fool around with her ketamine-addled colleague Dave, and their actions have surprising and farcical consequences. The allure of an inanimate object has seldom been so touchingly rendered than in Folk's wry, tender, and sweetly odd narrative. It's an unforgettable ode to the pursuit of desire.
