Truly Like Lightning by David Duchovny
| Author(s) | David Duchovny |
|---|---|
| Published | February 2nd, 2021 |
| Genre(s) | Contemporary Fiction, Westerns, Mormon Religion |
| Age group | Adult |
Summary
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.
Trigger Warnings
- Attempted murder
- Bullying
- Character Death
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Colonialism
- Climate Change
- Cults/Group Think [FLDS (mentioned), NXVIM(mentioned), Scientology(mentioned), Branch Davidians (mentioned), People's Temple (mentioned)]
- Cultural Appropriation
- Drug addiction
- Drug use (Tobacco, Pills, Alcohol, Hard drugs)
- Fat shaming
- Hate Crime
- Homophobia
- Incest
- Infant Death
- Mormon Religion
- Misogyny
- Pedophilia
- Plural Marriage
- Pretendian/Native American Fetish
- Prostitution
- Racism (including the use of the N-word by white people)
- Rape
- Religious Doctrine/Zealotry
- Sexism
- Sexual Situations (some involving minors)
- Shaming people for having sex
- Trump's "America"
- Tumors that lead to death of parent
- Verbal Abuse by Parents
Representation
An asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity.
- Cis straight white man MC
- Cis straight white woman MC
- Cis bisexual women MCs
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