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A CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE.
'Weird and different and clever and beautiful and moving and funny and I honestly can't recommend it enough'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Unironic 5 stars. Come for the crazy premise, stay for the best written character in years'
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'I could completely relate to Linda and haven't read a book that seemed so real in a long time'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'I hate how much I love this book'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'It rearranged my brain a little bit'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'The most surprising read of the year so far . . . embrace the weirdness'
Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'A full-throttle thrill: strap in!'
Daily Mail
Linda tries her best to lead a normal life. But once a month she escapes to the airport to secretly indulge in her true passion: Linda is sexually attracted to planes, and believes it is her destiny to someday marry one by dying in a fiery crash.

When the opportunity arises to hasten her romantic fate, Linda must choose between the trappings of an ordinary life and succumbing to her deepest desires.

'Folk has written something truly original here: the kind of novel that startles you into remembering fiction's potential to be simultaneously deeply weird, deeply funny and deeply felt'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Batty and brilliant'
THE TIMES

'Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird'
RACHEL YODER, author of NIGHTBITCH

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A little bit JG Ballard, a little bit Ottessa Moshfegh'
DAILY MAIL

'A dog whistle for the true freaks - never have I felt so seen! I loved it'
RITA BULLWINKEL, author of the Booker Prize-longlisted HEADSHOT

A CLASSIC STORY OF GIRL MEETS PLANE. 'Weird and different and clever and beautiful and moving and funny and I honestly can't recommend it enough' Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Unironic 5 stars. Come for the crazy premise, stay for the best written character in years' Amazon reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I ...

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About the author

Kate Folk is the author of the short story collection Out There. She has written for publications including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and Zyzzyva. She's received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Recently, she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. She lives in San Francisco.

Kate Folk is the author of the short story collection Out There. She has written for publications including The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and Zyzzyva. She's received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virgi...

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