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Blue Skies

By: T. C. Boyle
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
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From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate change.

Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful boyfriend, Cat decides that she needs a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like “jewelry, living jewelry.” But when the budding social influencer finally gives in to impulse, buying a Burmese python from a local pet shop, she sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire events that culminates in one of the most memorable denouements in recent fiction, one that ensnares her entire family, from her eco-obsessed parents, Ottilie and Frank, to her frat-boy-turned-husband, Todd.

But there’s more than meets the eye in this compulsive family drama. Lurking beneath the banal façade of twenty-first-century California and Florida is a caricature of materialist American society that doubles as a prophetic warning about our planet’s future.

An eco-thriller with teeth, Boyle’s Blue Skies is at once a tragicomic satire and a prescient novel that captures the absurdity and “inexpressible sadness at the heart of everything.”

©2023 T. C. Boyle (P)2023 Recorded Books Dark Humor Literature & Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Witty Suspenseful
Engaging Storyline • Vivid Characters • Compelling Family Dynamics • Rich Descriptions • Skillful Storytelling

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A story of an American family and their relationship with each other with climate change always there shaping and changing their lives. Smart, often funny, always captivating.

Climate change up close and personal

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Loved this book. I hated that it had to end. Rocky, I want to meet you.

Ray Porter is a masterful voiceover artist

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I maybe biased, but, I feel TC Boyle is one of our greatest living authors.
“Blue Skies”, is another wonderful example of his skill, wit, subtlety, creativity and command of the English language.

Boyle On Top Again

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The characters were vivid and flawed, and the story was engaging and laced with glimpses of a not-too-distant future when climate change has fully taken hold. Also, the performance was absolutely outstanding.

Terrific characters & performance

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I learned a few things about the natural world (snakes, ticks, climate change, termites) while also being thoroughly entertained.

Interesting and exciting

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