Lucky Day
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Publisher Description
“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights."—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death
Lucky Day is the instant USA Today and Indie bestseller from Chuck Tingle, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.
Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.
When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he's investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossibly—lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.
Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.
Also by Chuck Tingle:
Bury Your Gays
Camp Damascus
Straight
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tingle (Bury Your Gays) wows with an absurdist existential horror novel that is as funny as it is unexpectedly devastating, complex, and challenging. Probability expert Vera Norrie's life is turned upside down when her book release party is destroyed by a worldwide eruption of surreal, apocalyptic violence. Surviving what becomes known as the Low-Probability Event leaves her apathetic and traumatized, but things start to change when federal agent Jonah Layne shows up at her door. Vera's previous investigations into an uncommonly lucky casino might hold the answers everybody's looking for as to why the outbreak occurred. Can she connect the dots in time to save the world and does she care enough to try? Tingle uses the tragic and bizarre to examine a deeper and never more relevant theme about how to create a meaningful life during difficult times. The comedic carnage might overwhelm a lesser novel, but Tingle's fast-paced plot makes it work, and his ability to effectively wield the many disparate elements at play here impresses. Combining irreverent moments of surreality with an earnest message about finding hope even in the face of brutality, this is Tingle's best yet.
