Sky Daddy was recommended to me and it’s a book I’ll never forget. What starts off with curiosity and a bit of confusion, turns into a book about human experience, desire, and loneliness. Keep reading this book review of Sky Daddy for my full thoughts.
Summary
Linda is doing her best to lead a life that would appear normal to the casual observer. Weekdays, she earns $20 an hour moderating comments for a video-sharing platform, then rides the bus home to the windowless garage she rents on the outskirts of San Francisco. But on the last Friday of each month, she indulges in 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 her destiny is to “marry” one of her suitors by dying in a plane crash, thereby uniting her 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.
Review
Sky Daddy is a story about desire. About these worlds, wishes, dreams beneath our skin. It’s about searching for connection, the power of belief, and fate. It’s uncomfortable at times, but it also brings us back to humanity itself. Because in Linda’s story is a desperate search for love, for completion, and connection. She wants so desperately to manifest her future, which is so different from what we might consider. And in some ways, she keeps people at a distance as she’s so focused on her goal. But what happens when there are people to bring us back to Earth?
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What is more relatable to our quest for our dreams? To pinning everything we have on our dreams and what happens if it doesn’t work out? There’s something uncomfortable, but also brave in how single focused Linda is. There aren’t characters who can empathize with her, but there are those who care for her even if they can’t share that dream. Sky Daddy is a story dedicated to characters. In some ways it explores these liminal spaces, the separation from reality, but also humanity which pulls us back and grounds us. Find Sky Daddy on Goodreads, Storygraph, Amazon, Bookshop. org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.