Sky Daddy

Sky Daddy ~ Kate Folk

Linda works as a content moderator at a tech company in San Francisco, where she reviews comments to make sure they follow the standards of her company’s clients. She lives in the Outer Sunset neighborhood, where she pays $900 a month to live in a windowless (illegal) cube in a family’s garage (I feel like they could get more than $900). She has only one friend, coworker Karina, and a sexual obsession with commercial airplanes. Linda saves her wages to spend on flights to anywhere, because her desire is the flight, not the location. She masterbates on the flight, lands, spends her time in the destination airport walking around and leering at airplanes through the windows, then flys home again. Her desire is to ‘marry’ an airplane, which means that the airplane will recognize her, be overcome with love and lust for her, and crash.

Karina invites Linda to a vision board party, where she tries to disguise her abnormal attraction by using pictures of airplanes, pilots, and the CEO of a French airline. She tells the other women that her goal for the upcoming year is to marry a pilot…which actually doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea, because then she could use his discount to fly more often, increasing her chances of meeting the plane of her dreams.

Birchie read this book last year when she was in California on vacation, and the fact that she loved it was not enough to convince me that I would love it. Then Nicole gave it 5/5 stars, and I thought…huh. Then Birchie named it her best read of 2025, and Nicole said it was in her list of top reads too, and I started to think maybe I should give it a chance. Then Jenny chimed and said she loved it too. OK, guys, I’m starting to suffer from serious FOMO, you convinced me. And I’m glad you did, because while this book is deeply strange, it’s written in such a way that you cannot help but root for Linda. So clever, so weird, so well written. Highly recommended. Likely you guessed, but just in case you didn’t know, it’s raunchy.