Sky Daddy
'Very strange and very funny' - Guardian
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- 12,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
'Truly original . . . deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
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
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'This book is truly unlike anything I've read before. It is strange and wild and so enjoyable'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'As soon as I saw Sky Daddy was available, I stopped everything and ran (digitally) to NetGalley to beg/plead/scream/cry for the book. It is everything I hoped it would be and more. Do yourself a favour and pick up this original and engaging book'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'This book was absolutely wild . . . I laughed out loud at parts of this and I truly had the best time with this. The concept is absurd but it made for a brilliant novel'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'This is one of my most anticipated reads of 2025 and boy did it live up to my expectations. Such a quirky book but really fascinating to read. I really loved the characters, the storyline, and just how downright weird it was! 100% recommend if you love your books weird and wild. Well done again Kate Folk!!'
NetGalley reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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.
