Blue Skies - T. C. Boyle

Category: (Post)apocalyptic, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Climate Change Contemporary dark humor Dystopia USA

Written by T. C. Boyle
Read by Alyssa Bresnahan
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, 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.

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.”

Recorded Books, 2023
15 hours and 29 minutes