Truly Like Lightning, David Duchovny
Truly Like Lightning, David Duchovny
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Truly Like Lightning
A Novel

Author: David Duchovny

Narrator: David Duchovny

Unabridged: 13 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2021


Synopsis

This audiobook includes exclusive music by Kyd Miller Duchovny, the author's son

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About David Duchovny

David Duchovny is a television, stage, and screen actor, as well as a singer-songwriter, screenwriter, and director. He lives in New York and Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kasa

This is the first of David Duchovny's books I've read but it definitely will not be the last. Although better known as an intuitive, charismatic actor, his bio proves that he is a renaissance man with talents that range from his acting gigs to music and here he proves himself a writer of originality......more

Goodreads review by Lori

I'm not ashamed to admit that I had the biggest crush on David Duchovny when I was in my late teens/early twenties. I would spend every Friday (and then Sunday) night curled up in front of the TV watching the latest episode of The X-Files. And then the show ended, and Duchovny kind of faded into the......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

I could not finish this book. Throughout I was asking myself "WTF did I just read?". I was asked to review this book and I agreed because it sounded interesting and the author's name seemed familiar. I later realized he's the guy from X-files, of which I was not a fan but that has no bearing here ot......more