In "Sky Daddy," author Kate Folk explores the unorthodox love story of Linda, who is infatuated with commercial airplanes. Amidst a backdrop of declining air travel experiences and societal grievances, Folk's narrative weaves together themes of yearning and fantasy as Linda seeks connection through potentially tragic encounters in flight. Her fascination with aviation is portrayed through eccentric observations and an anthropomorphizing lens, challenging readers' perceptions of love, risk, and human connection in a world marred by turbulence and grief.
But now air travel is one big grumble: it's degrading, everyone is ill-mannered and you used to get free peanuts in this country, but now the peanuts are not free.
The Boeing 737 is the sky's narrow-bodied workhorse, the Airbus A320 has the handsomest face of any commercial airliner.
I believed this was my destiny, Linda tells us, for a plane to recognize me as his soulmate mid-flight and, overcome with passion, relinquish his grip on the sky.
Sky Daddy is a very strange and very unprecedented debut novel that offers a unique narrative perspective on love, aviation, and life's unpredictabilities.
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