![]() ![]() (Wood is working partially from experience here: Her father won the Washington state lottery.) His money- grubbing brothers and estranged mother quickly descend on him, thinking him an easy mark. ![]() Then, in quick succession, his grandmother dies and he wins $12 million in the Washington state lottery. More important, he knows something most people take a while to figure out - that his IQ doesn't have to limit his options.Īt 32, Perry has a comfortable life: He lives with his foulmouthed but loving grandmother and works at Holsted's Marine Supply. ![]() But with an IQ of 76, he's one point above the cutoff. When they first meet him, they often assume he is retarded. Crandall, hero and narrator of Patricia Wood's first novel, "Lottery," is used to correcting people. ![]()
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