$30
Includes a copy of Truly Like Lightning
Out of stock
Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT February 2, 2021
Online Event
David Duchovny and Jess Walter (The Cold Millions) are back together, this time to talk about Duchovny’s newest novel Truly Like Lightning, a meditation on family, religion, and environment set in the western California desert oasis near Joshua Tree. Duchovny will perform a portion of the novel, followed by a conversation between the two friends. If you missed their wide-ranging conversation last fall, you can find it here.
Tickets to this virtual event include a copy of Truly Like Lightning, which will be released on February 2, 2021. Books will include a signed bookplate.
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Featuring
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David Duchovny
David Duchovny
David Duchovny is a television, stage, and screen actor, as well as a screenwriter and director. He lives in New York and Los Angeles. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Truly Like Lightning, Miss Subways, Bucky F*cking Dent, and Holy Cow, all published by FSG.
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Jess Walter
Jess Walter
Jess Walter is the author of The Cold Millions, the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins, the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince, Land of the Blind, and the New York Times Notable Book Over Tumbled Graves. He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his family.
Featured Book
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Truly Like Lightning
By David Duchovny
Published by FSG
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.
About this series
Story/Teller
Our Story/Teller series features actors reading from new works of fiction to give audiences a taste of the language, characters, and story, followed by moderated conversations with the authors.