Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. But on the last Friday of each month, she indulges her true passion, taking BART to SFO for a round-trip flight to a regional hub. The destination is irrelevant, because each trip means a new date with a handsome stranger—a stranger whose intelligent windscreens, sleek fuselages, and powerful engines make Linda feel a way that no human ever could. . . . Linda knows that she can’t tell anyone she’s sexually obsessed with planes. Nor can she reveal her belief that it’s her destiny to “marry” one of her suitors, uniting with her soulmate plane for eternity. But when an opportunity arises to hasten her dream of eternal partnership, and the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of control, she must choose between maintaining the trappings of normalcy and launching herself headlong toward the love she’s always dreamed of.
Sleek and darkly comical ... Folk is a dryly funny writer, with the melancholic wit and whimsy of Miranda July ... Folk’s deft navigation between sardonic optimism and buoyant fatalism is perfectly calibrated to the utter strangeness of being alive today, when the closeness of our private devices pushes us farther from each other and getting swept up in the machinery can feel safer than the turbulence of true attachment.
The results are just as bizarre, witty and poignant as her fans could hope ... Nothing...comes close to the libidinous creativity of Sky Daddy ... As unusual as Linda seems at the opening of Sky Daddy, by the end, her meditation on desire and friendship feels surprisingly touching.
