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Lucky you : a novel

Carter, Erika, 1986- author

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\"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\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Counterpoint Press
• Subject: Waitresses Fiction. / Female friendship Fiction. / Distress (Psychology) Fiction. / Self-destructive behavior Fiction. / Life change events Fiction. / Ozark Mountains Region Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781619028999

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3603.A77699 L83 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE