num_pages: 320
description: Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won't forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And, most important, she taught him whom to trust. When Gram dies, Perry is left orphaned and bereft at the age of thirty-one. Then his weekly Washington State Lottery ticket wins him 12 million dollars, and he finds he has more family than he knows what to do with. Peopled with characters both wicked and heroic who leap off the pages, Lottery is a deeply satisfying, gorgeously rendered novel about trust, loyalty, and what distinguishes us as capable.
language: English
title: Lottery
titlecomplete: Lottery
characters: Perry O. Crandall
genres: Fiction, Family, Book Club, Humor, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 9070
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Putnam Publishing Group