Truly like lightning a novel
โ Scribed by Duchovny, David
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 312 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0374722455
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โฆ Synopsis
**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...
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