At Traveler, we’re no strangers to stories about flight—we’ve debated how to preserve its sanctity, questioned why it makes us so emotional, and are always on the hunt for the next best travel deal to whisk us away. Colloquially, you might call us obsessed, but Linda—the protagonist of Kate Folk’s debut novel Sky Daddy—is actually obsessed. Linda has objective sexuality, with a particular soft spot for big commercial airplanes: 747s, A380s, and the like. Folk describes Linda as stemming from a literary lineage of charming eccentrics such as Ishmael from Moby Dick and Keiko Furukura from Convenience Store Woman, and the resemblance is striking. I fell in love with Linda’s voice on the first page. Her perspective on the world is at once self-aware, frank, and surprisingly funny. Folk lends us Linda’s eyes and ears as she navigates the call center she works at, a women’s brunch and vision board group, and an airport Buffalo Wild Wings, for a few examples. Linda shines in these corners of everyday life that usually taste of a familiar and unglamorous flavor. I could read her internal monologue of watching paint dry. All this to say, Folk leaves it all on the table in this stunning first novel, and I promise it’s as fun as its premise is zany. —Kat Chen, editorial assistant, destinations