"Lottery" By Patricia Wood

I'm not really sure how to begin describing this book. I really enjoyed reading it – well, listening to it –since my library only had it for Kindle in an audio version. I read it as part of a book club. Here is the summary of the book from the author's website:

"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."

The author keeps you amused throughout the book. It isn't all laughter, but sometimes it's the ups and downs that make the book so good. The main character is more intelligent than many people with higher IQs. Another quote from the book that I liked:

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart