Odd Pages Book Club: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk
Welcome aboard the first flight of Reverie Books’s Odd Pages Book Club! Take off is at 7:00 pm on Monday, June 22nd, and you’ll always get your preferred seat because you should bring it yourself! Our in-flight entertainment will be a discussion of the novel Sky Daddy by Kate Folk.
MONDAY, JUNE 22nd
7:00 – 8:00 PM (after closing)
5330 MENCHACA RD, AUSTIN, TX 78745
BYOC (Bring Your Own Chair)
Mention the book club when you purchase this month’s selection to receive 10% off this title at purchase.
This event is free and open to the public, and you do not have to have finished the book to attend. That said, we will be discussing spoilers.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. Weekdays, she earns $20 an hour moderating comments for a video-sharing platform, then rides the bus home to the windowless garage she rents on the outskirts of San Francisco. But on the last Friday of each month, she indulges her true passion, taking BART to SFO for a round-trip flight to a regional hub. The destination is irrelevant, because each trip means a new date with a handsome stranger—a stranger whose intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages, and powerful engines make Linda feel a way that no human ever could.
Linda knows that she can’t tell anyone she’s sexually obsessed with planes. Nor can she reveal her belief that it’s her destiny to “marry” one of her suitors, uniting with her soulmate plane for eternity. But when an opportunity arises to hasten her dream of eternal partnership, and the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of control, she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy and launching herself headlong toward the love she’s always dreamed of.
Both subversive and unexpectedly heartwarming, Sky Daddy hijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“[A] bizarre and endearing debut . . . We can’t remember the last time we met a character this singular or read a book this funny.”—Oprah Daily (Best New Books to Read This Spring)
“Sleek and darkly comical . . . with the melancholic wit and whimsy of Miranda July.”—The Boston Globe
Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with an unusual obsession, in this “audaciously imagined and surprisingly tender” (Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch) debut novel by the acclaimed author of Out There.
ABOUT ODD PAGES BOOK CLUB
We read weird and wild books from all over the globe across a diversity of genres. Step outside your comfort zone and experience the strangeness that’s found in the Odd Pages.