Truly Like Lightning

From the New York TimesΓÇôbestselling 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 yearsBronson Powersformer Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormonhas been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wivesYalulahMaryand Jackiehave been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existenceΓÇöcontroversialdifficultbut EdenicΓÇöis upended when the ambitious young developer Maya Abbadessa stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profitshe crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Mayathreatening to report the family to social servicesconvinces 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 oasisthey 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 livesthe Powerses must reckon with their lifestyle as they try to save it. Truly Like LightningDavid DuchovnyΓÇÖs fourth novelis a heartbreaking meditation on familyreligionsexgreedhuman natureand the vanishing environment of an ancient desert.