‘Sky Daddy’ explores sex with airplanes, and what it means to be human

‘Sky Daddy’ explores sex with airplanes, and what it means to be human

In Kate Folk’s debut novel “Sky Daddy,” readers careen toward an uncertain destiny through the eyes of Linda, a woman who plans to dedicate her life to her erotic love of airplanes. “All planes are male,” Linda declares decisively. She longs for a plane to “marry” her — that is, kill her in a plane crash. The book is set in San Francisco, where the author also lives. Folk was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford from 2019 to 2021. During that time, she …