Truly Like Lightning: A Novel

· Macmillan Audio · Narrated by David Duchovny
4.6
5 reviews
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This audiobook includes exclusive music by Kyd Miller Duchovny, the author's son

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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4.6
5 reviews
Kate Engelking
19 February 2021
The story is actually quite good, which makes Duchovny's narration all the more unfortunate. Duchovny is consistently flat and quite monotone through the whole book, but even worse is the quality of audio mastering. Levels and ambient noise are all over the place, with obvious cuts sometimes for just one sentence. This sounds like it was recorded on his phone and predominantly in the bathroom with the environment echo that's nearly constantly present.
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About the author

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.

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