Blue Skies

De: T. C. Boyle

Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan

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

Climate change up close and personal

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.

Ray Porter is a masterful voiceover artist

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

Boyle On Top Again

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.

Terrific characters & performance

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.

Interesting and exciting

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