The joyfully freewheeling funny and profound new novel from ?one of the most inventive
adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver) Welcome to
America. On the east coast homes are being swallowed by the ocean on the west coast
California is engulfed with wildfire. But for one family the impending environmental disaster
is the least of their worries. Party girl Cat just impulse-purchased a snake her pious brother
Cooper is wrestling with a tic bite and their mom Ottilie has resorted to cooking with
crickets. Everyone is drinking too much - and the bugs seems to be disappearing. It seems as if
it's anything but blue skies ahead... A delightfully dark comedy of manners about family life
at the end of the world Blue Skies is a masterful new adventure from one of the America's
great comic writers. _______________ 'Always enjoyable virtually incapable of dullness or
slack sentences ... His stories reveal truths about modern life while still feeling beautifully
invented' - NEW YORK TIMES 'A virtuoso craftsman' - ANNIE PROULX 'Boyle is a writer who chooses
a large canvas and fills it to the edges' - BARBARA KINGSOLVER
