Truly Like Lightning: A Conversation with David Duchovny
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$35 – Includes Virtual Event Access + A Copy of “Truly Like Lightning”
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Your ticket includes access to the virtual event, as well as a copy of Truly Like Lightning. Please note books won’t be shipped until after the release date on Feb. 2 and we cannot guarantee delivery before the event. SIGNED BOOKPLATES ARE SOLD OUT.
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*Please note that this show will take place over Zoom*
EVENT INFORMATION:
Date: Thurs, February 4th
Time: 7PM EST / 4PM PT
IN CONJUNCTION WITH BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH.
A virtual event with David Duchovny in conversation with Here & Now‘s Emiko Tamagawa
From the New York Times–bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes
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.
“This beguiling book crackles with energy and intelligence. It makes you laugh and then just when you think the ride is coming to an end . . . it delivers a right hook that leaves you aghast. It kind of broke my heart and I loved every minute of it.” —Samantha Bee
“Truly Like Lightning is a terrific novel—smart, moving, propulsive—at once a satire of Hollywood power brokers and a dead-serious contemplation of American values and ideals. David Duchovny writes with the heart of a great comic novelist and the soul of a philosopher.” —Jess Walter, author of The Cold Millions
David Duchovny is a television, stage, and screen actor, as well as a singer-songwriter, screenwriter, and director. He lives in New York and Los Angeles.
About Robin Young:
Robin Young brings more than 25 years of broadcast experience to her role as host of Here & Now. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS and ABC television and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for “The Today Show.”