![]() ![]() He has a job at Holsted’s Marine Supply, an apartment over the shop, and he takes weekly trips to the Handy Mart to buy lottery tickets. Under the protective eyes of his boss Gary, Vietnam vet Keith and convenience-store clerk Cherry, Perry settles into a new routine on the waterfront in Everett, Wash. ![]() After Gram dies, his absent mother and siblings swindle him out of the house she left him. She also warns Perry about whom to trust in the world, and especially to value his own abilities and instincts. His beloved Gram tells him being slow isn’t a bad thing he’ll get where he needs to go in his own time. Crandall (“L” for Lucky) isn’t retarded-he’ll tell you so. A first novel told from the perspective of a mentally limited man caught up in forces beyond his control. ![]()
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