02448cam a2200361 i 4500 626098950 TxAuBib 20210127120000.0 200903s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020040448 9780374277741 hardcover 0374277745 hardcover (OCoLC)1153455337 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda CGL DLC OCLCO TXAAL TxAuBib CGL OCLCO TXAAL TxAuBib rda Duchovny, David, author. Truly like lightning / David Duchovny. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 445 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Truly Like Lightning, David Duchovny's fourth novel, is a heartbreaking meditation on family, religion, sex, greed, human nature, and the vanishing environment of an ancient desert. 20210127. Latter Day Saints Fiction. Polygamy Fiction. Families California, Southern Fiction. Deserts California, Southern Fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels. Fiction. TXAAL