Summary and Reviews of Sky Daddy by Kate Folk

Media Reviews

Polygon Far and away one of the most audacious and surprisingly feel-good books that 2025 has to offer.

Bustle Anything can be 'daddy,' even planes, as Kate Folk proves in her debut novel... . If you can't get enough of shows like My Strange Addiction or Objective Love, this one is for you.

Literary Hub Kate Folk has an unusual eye and style, but if you buckle up, it's one hell of a ride.

Our Culture A warm and bonkers look at female obsession, shame, and desire from one of our best writers.

The Telegraph (UK) 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... . In a fiction landscape that often bends toward the familiar and marketable, Sky Daddy reminds us that the novel's real job is to stretch the imagination to its most exhilarating limits. The best fiction doesn't just mirror desire—it deranges it, making us see the world, and ourselves, afresh. We watch Linda the same way she watches airplanes: fascinated, rapt.

Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Folk—following up her memorably weird and innovative story collection, Out There (2022)—displays a masterful command...hilarious...An utterly confident and endearing portrait of a woman unlike anyone readers have met before.

Publishers Weekly (starred review) [B]listering...The allure of an inanimate object has seldom been so touchingly rendered than in Folk's wry, tender, and sweetly odd narrative. It's an unforgettable ode to the pursuit of desire.

 Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams Sky Daddy is outrageously funny and smartly unsettling, as if J. G. Ballard did a story arc for New Girl. It's an audacious comic novel about the love that really dare not say its name—also probably the worst (or ... best?) book to read on a plane.

 Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends This is the craziest, funniest book I've read in a while. And I read a lot of crazy, funny books. Get your boarding pass out and get ready for some turbulence. Sky Daddy is insane.

 Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat Hilarious, refreshing, and perverse, Sky Daddy is a soaring portrait of modern obsession, of knowing exactly what you want and trying to wrestle it from the jaws of our ridiculous world. Kate Folk's sharp sentences and sidesplitting characters sparkle with glorious cringe. Do not miss this flight.