Truly Like Lightning: A Novel
Written by David Duchovny
Narrated by David Duchovny
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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
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.
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Reviews for Truly Like Lightning
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant... loved the weaving of popular cultural references, against an understandable glimpse into the “other” world of religious fanaticism, & big ego worship of money & power.
I’m a big fan of David Duchovny, but I think he should not be the one to read it. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Really well researched, conceptually interesting story by the guy who played the writer who couldn't write any more. Duchovny is way smarter than the roles he has played might lead you to believe. And he writes fearlessly.