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Blue Skies

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in the glare of climate change.Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fianc?, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like ?jewelry, living jewelry? to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young ?Burmie? she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire and outrageous events that comes to threaten her very survival.Blue Skies follows in the tradition of T. C. Boyle?s finest novels, combining high-octane plotting with mordant wit and shrewd social commentary. Here Boyle, one of the most inventive voices in contemporary fiction, transports us to water-logged and heat-ravaged coastal America, where Cat and her hapless, nature-loving family?including her eco-warrior parents, Ottilie and Frank; her brother, Cooper, an entomologist; and her