Truly Like Lightning
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
This audiobook includes exclusive music by Kyd Miller Duchovny, the author's son
From the New York Times–bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes
For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence—controversial, difficult, but Edenic—is upended when the ambitious young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit, she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a deadly chain of events.
Maya, threatening to report the family to social services, convinces them to enter three of their children into a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that the kids do better in town than in their desert oasis, they will sell her a chunk of their priceless plot of land. Suddenly confronted with all the complications of the twenty-first century that they tried to keep out of their lives, the Powerses must reckon with their lifestyle as they try to save it.
Truly Like Lightning, David Duchovny’s fourth novel, is a heartbreaking meditation on family, religion, sex, greed, human nature, and the vanishing environment of an ancient desert.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Customer Reviews
Powerful and vivid characters
This is likely the best book I’ve read/listened to in quite a while. I’m impressed with the deep character developments and relationships as well as the way Duchovny puts the reader in the characters’ minds; you really can feel what they’re feeling and see what they’re seeing. I hope it gets used as a tv show or miniseries in the future so more people can experience this fantastic story.
The only reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5 is because the sound quality is not good on the audiobook (if I were reviewing the regular book I’d give it a perfect score). Please note that the sound quality does seem to get a little better later on in the book but starts out pretty warbly. Either way, I got used to it, it was well-narrated by the author, and I’m very glad I bought it because I will listen to it again in the future.