In Julie Pennell's Louisiana
Lucky, three sisters from Brady, La., share a lottery jackpot of $204
million, and the outcomes result in a novel that is breezy and enjoyable,
filled with charm and wit, romance and wisdom.
The Breaux sisters, all in their
20s, are hard-working, middle-class and bonded by family. One night a month,
the lottery-playing girls gather for dinner and drinks and watch the Powerball
drawing on television. Hanna, the oldest, lives with her struggling contractor
husband and two kids in an inherited Victorian house in disrepair. Callie, the
middle sister, is a still-single, brilliant journalist selling herself short
working at a local paper. And Lexi, the youngest, is a hairdresser engaged to a
vet school student with an overbearing, controlling, high-society mother. Each
sister dreams of taking home the jackpot. Every month, they play two random and
one predetermined number, as well as meaningful numbers selected from the
heart--years parents have been married, house numbers, date they met a true
love, number of kids. When their ship finally comes in, each sister takes home
$68 million (before taxes), but that's when the real trouble starts. New
choices and challenges upend the manageability of their former lives.
Pennell (The Young Wives Club)
spins fresh perspective into classic adages like "be careful what you wish
for" and "money is the root of all evil." She delivers a winning
story--with appealing characters and a well-conceived, page-turning plot--about
ordinary people changed by money in their individual ways.
Louisiana Lucky by Julie
Pennell
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, $16.99 Paperback, 9781982115630, 320 pages
Publication Date: August 4, 2020
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