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Lucky You: A Novel
By Erika Carter
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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An NPR Best Book of 2017
"A chillingly adroit debut novel." —Elle
“Lucky You is a marvel of a book, partly because Carter does a perfect job balancing humor and tragedy . . . As an author, she’s both unsparing and compassionate, and among her greatest gifts is an ability to find a savage kind of beauty in the unlikeliest of places.” —Michael Schaub, NPR
Ellie, Chloe, and Rachel are friends (sort of), waitresses at the same dive bar in the Arkansas college town they’ve stuck around in too long, each becoming unmoored in her own way. When Rachel falls under the sway of a messianic boyfriend with whom she’s agreed to live off–grid for a year, she convinces Ellie and Chloe to join them in “The Project.” With startling exactitude and wickedly deadpan humor, Lucky You, lays bare the emotional core of its characters with surgical precision.
"A chillingly adroit debut novel." —Elle
“Lucky You is a marvel of a book, partly because Carter does a perfect job balancing humor and tragedy . . . As an author, she’s both unsparing and compassionate, and among her greatest gifts is an ability to find a savage kind of beauty in the unlikeliest of places.” —Michael Schaub, NPR
Ellie, Chloe, and Rachel are friends (sort of), waitresses at the same dive bar in the Arkansas college town they’ve stuck around in too long, each becoming unmoored in her own way. When Rachel falls under the sway of a messianic boyfriend with whom she’s agreed to live off–grid for a year, she convinces Ellie and Chloe to join them in “The Project.” With startling exactitude and wickedly deadpan humor, Lucky You, lays bare the emotional core of its characters with surgical precision.
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Reviews for Lucky You
Rating: 2.6739130434782608 out of 5 stars
2.5/5
23 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I couldn't connect with this book and there was absolutely no resolution which drove me mad.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I’ve been debating over how to rate this book. (This was my January 2017 Book of the Month Club selection.) It held my attention, but at the same time I had problems with it. It left me shaking my head, thinking what was the point?Normally I would pass on a book about twenty-somethings trying to find themselves, but LUCKY YOU is set in Arkansas, and I have a thing for Arkansas, especially the Ozark Mountains. So, I gave it a try. The setting was wonderful, loved the descriptions, but the characters and plot were another story.Ellie, Chloe, and Rachel were just flat-out unpleasant, and their backstories were lacking. It wasn’t clear to me why they behaved as they did. So, they become part of a project, living off the grid to escape the “Old World” and all the “unhealth” in it. Sounds fine, but I was disappointed in the results. The chapters alternate between each woman, then about halfway through, Chloe disappears, and the others have to finish up her story. Why ignore a main character?Sad story. Sad characters. Unfortunately I missed the dark humor the blurb mentions. Haunting ― maybe, funny ― no.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This debut novel by Erika Carter present us with 3 women, friends from college stuck in the same college town in Arkansas in 2008. They each have their (many) flaws, and each are spiraling, whether knowingly or not, into increasing self-destruction. Ellie is an alcoholic and sleeps with strangers, married men, and musicians. Chloe is still haunted by her mother's madness (and may have some of it herself), and Rachel, who changes herself with every new guy she dates, is currently living a sustainable, healthy lifestyle in the Ozarks mountains with her boyfriend Autry. Eventually Rachel convinces Ellie and Chloe to join her for the Project, a year-long commitment to leave the Old World of "unhealth" and start a new, carbon-footprint-free life. Autry is the mastermind, and his ultimate goal is to write a book and start a movement. However, the women's demons still follow them, no matter how off the grid they try to be. No one in this book is particularly likable. They fall into the same harmful patterns and routines, and soon the women begin to realize that Autry is full of sh*t. I don't know if I can say I enjoyed this book, but it did make me think about people my age and how, even though they long for connection, they still are able to alienate themselves so completely from everyone else.