Lucky You: A Novel - Hardcover

Carter, Erika

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1619028999 ISBN 13: 9781619028999

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2017

Synopsis

An official Book of the Month Club selection.

In Erika Carter's fierce and darkly funny debut novel, Lucky You, three women in their early twenties find themselves aimlessly adrift in the Arkansas college town they've stuck around in too long. Ellie, Chloe, and Rachel are friends (sort of), waitresses at the same dive bar. 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 she 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.
By turns funny, knowing and hauntingly sad, Lucky You is a study in damage and detachment, a fearless portrait of three women at a crucial point in their lives. 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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Erika Carter has the rare combination of tough intelligence-- almost, as it were, the rough straightforward shrewdness of old-style city-beat newspaper writers--and the musical subtle touch of the poet. Her story of these three young women will keep you reading, and you won't soon forget them. What a marvelously talented young writer." -Richard Bausch, author of Before, During, After and Thanksgiving Night. 

From the Inside Flap

"Lucky You is a stunningly honest novel about the inner lives of three women. Sexy, risky, with a pleasurably dangerous tension. Erika Carter's writing is effortlessly remarkable." -Janis Cooke Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1619028999
• ISBN 13: 9781619028999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288