BookBrowse Reviews Blue Skies by T.C. Boyle

While waiting for her fiancé on a sunny Florida afternoon, Cat spots a gorgeous snake in a shop window and can't resist. She leaves with a Burmese Python she intends to wear as "living jewelry"—the perfect gimmick to launch her career as a social media influencer. Almost as soon as she gets him home, the Python escapes. Across the country, in California, Cat's entomologist brother Cooper is helping his girlfriend collect tick specimens while their mother Ottilie sets up her new cricket farm. For both siblings, these seemingly simple actions will have an enormous impact on the course of their lives. As the story unfolds, they struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy while the world continually shifts around them. Both gradual changes and sudden tragedy force them to redefine or give up on their hopes for the future.

Despite the intensity of the events that take place, this ...