Kate Folk: Sky Daddy in conversation at Womb House Books

Please join us for a celebration of Kate Folk's debut novel, , at Womb House Books. Kate will be in conversation with WHB's owner, Jessica Ferri, followed by Q&A and signing.

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 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 by dying in a plane crash, a catastrophic event that would unite 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.
Both subversive and unexpectedly heartwarming, Sky Daddy hijacks the classic love story, exploring desire, fate, and the longing to be accepted for who we truly are.

Kate Folk is the author of the short story collection , a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, and The Baffler, among others. A recent Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received support for her writing from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Her debut novel, Sky Daddy, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.

Jessica Ferri is a writer and photographer based in Northern California. She is the author of , , and She is the founder of Womb House Books.

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