What happens when nature bites back? T.C. Boyle explores this question in his new novel Blue Skies.
Welcome to America. On the east coast, homes are being swallowed by the ocean; on the west coast, California is engulfed with wildfire. But for one family, the impending environmental disaster is the least of their worries. Party girl Cat just impulse-purchased a snake; her pious brother Cooper is wrestling with a tic bite; and their mom Ottilie has resorted to cooking with crickets. Everyone is drinking too much – and the bugs seems to be disappearing. It seems as if it’s anything but blue skies ahead… A delightfully dark comedy of manners about family life at the end of the world.
Blue Skies is a masterful new adventure from one of the America’s great comic writers.
Über T.C. Boyle
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988,[3] for his third novel, World’s End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
He was previously a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.[1]