Blue Skies: A Novel [Paperback]

Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fianc?, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like jewelry, living jewelry to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young Burmie she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire and outrageous events that comes to threaten her very survival. Boyles satire has lost none of its edge over the course of a nearly half-century literary career . . . [ Boyles satire has lost none of its edge over the course of a nearly half-century literary career . . . [ If our overpopulated and overheated planet is said to be approaching its terminus, as many nervous prognosticators believe, dont say T.C. Boyle didnt warn us& In Boyles world, insects are the de rigueur foodie alternative, and why not? As the most abundant life form on Earth, there are plenty to go around, and, given the right culinary sleight of hand, they make a dandy, nutritious meal. But now they, too, are quietly dying off, and no one is really paying much attention. In T.C. Boyle is one of our greatest living writers, and Blue Skies is one of his greatest books. It is a climate fiction novel, but Boyle doesnt beat you over the head with idealistic philosophies. Instead, he weaves the catastrophic details into the narrative (for example, oceanside property owners have to park their cars on ramps so the tides wont carry them away). Like the television series Succession, there are no redeeming characters in Blue Skies, but the narrative is one that you will not be able to turn away from. And because T.C. Boyle has been blessed with a comedians pen, you cant help but laugh at his characters misfortunes. There have been entire shelves of non-fiction books written about climate change . . . But somehow none of them are quite as devastating as T.C. Boyles latest novel, 'Blue Skies'. . . . And yet just before Boyle drives his characlcN