Cult Following for Provocative San Francisco Novel Soars

I thought I was being original by asking Kate Folk, the San Francisco-based author of the critically acclaimed novel “Sky Daddy,” to meet me in the Berman Reflection Room to watch passing planes at San Francisco International Airport. (The book, if you’re not aware, is about a woman’s sexual fixation on planes and her belief that, if she dies in a crash, the aircraft has chosen her to be its wife.) She politely informed me that she’s already been trotted out to the SkyTerrace by KQED, and along the Burlingame waterfront where the Elephant Bar once was — one of the main character’s favorite haunts — by the San Francisco Chronicle.