Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome T.C. Boyle to the bookstore for an exciting event to celebrate his highly anticipated new novel, Blue Skies! Boyle will be joined in conversation by local author Craig Pittman!

Set against those climate poles of our nation—fiery California and sodden Florida (though lately that seems reversed)—T.C. Boyle captures the utter exasperation of our times with this searing satire of nature gone wild. The family at the center of BLUE SKIES wants—as so many of us—to do right, get by, in the face of a looming ecological calamity. But, like Job, they are tested over and over by the gods—along with a Burmese python named Willie 2.

As Boyle sets in motion the chain of increasingly dire events that ensnare the enviro-sensitive parents, Ottilie and Frank, their carefree daughter Cat, and her embittered brother Cooper (who loses his arm to a tick bite), BLUE SKIES provides a cathartic—and ultimately moving—study of the human condition caught between fire and rain.