{"product_id":"9781619028999","title":"Lucky You: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn official Book of the Month Club selection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree women, early twenties, find themselves aimlessly adrift in Erika Carter’s fierce and darkly funny debut novel, \u003ci\u003eLucky You\u003c\/i\u003e. Ellie, Chloe and Rachel are friends (sort of); waitresses at the same tired bar in the Arkansas college town they’ve stuck around in too long. Each is becoming unmoored in her own way: Ellie obliterates all feeling with alcohol and self-destructive acts of sexual promiscuity; Chloe pulls out patches of her hair and struggles to keep incipient mental illness at bay; changeable Rachel has fallen under the sway of a messianic boyfriend with whom she’s agreed to live off-grid for a year in order to return to “health” and asks Ellie and Chloe to join them in “The Project”. In a remote, rural house in the Ozarks, nearly undone by boredom and the brewing tension between them, each tries to solve the conundrum of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns funny, knowing and hauntingly sad, \u003ci\u003eLucky You\u003c\/i\u003e delivers the kind of study in damage and detachment that made Mary Gaitskill’s \u003ci\u003eBad Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e or Joan Didion’s \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e so memorable. With startling exactitude and wickedly deadpan humor, it lays bare the emotional core of its characters with surgical precision. The writing is deft and controlled, as natural and unforced as breath—which makes it impossible to look away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036992520432,"sku":"9781619028999","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619028999_p0.jpg?v=1763853752","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619028999","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}