Duchovny David - Truly Like Lightning A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 star 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 evils of the modern world. Their insular existence controversial difficult but Edenic is upended when an ambitious young property developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a cataclysmic chain of events. Maya threatening to report the family to social services convinces them to enroll three of the children in a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that the kids do better in town than homeschooled in their desert oasis they will sell her a piece of their priceless plot of land. Suddenly confronted with all the complications of the twenty - first century that they have tried to keep out the Powerses must reckon with their way of life 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 beauty of an ancient desert.
Title: Truly Like Lightning A Novel
Author(s): Duchovny David
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250829603
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 2/1/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction