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Get Lucky

A Novel
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In Get Lucky, Katherine Center presents a hilarious and poignant story of Sarah Harper, who after losing her job due to a mishap, returns home to Houston for Thanksgiving. There, she discovers her sister Mackie’s heartbreaking decision to give up on having a baby and sell the nursery on eBay. Determined to help, Sarah devises a daring plan to support her sister, facing unresolved family ghosts and past relationships along the way. This novel explores themes of family, loss, and the pursuit of happiness with warmth and wit.
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Fans of heartfelt and humorous contemporary fiction, especially readers who enjoy stories about family dynamics and personal growth. Recommended for admirers of Jennifer Weiner, Emily Giffin, and Marisa de los Santos.

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Center's marvelously entertaining and poignant new novel is about choosing tolook for happiness--and maybe getting lucky enough to find it. 50,000print.

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Beloved author of The Bright Side of Disaster and Everyone is Beautiful, Katherine Center's funniest and most entertaining novel yet, for fans of Jennifer Weiner, Emily Giffin, and Marisa de los Santos.

How do you change your luck? A young woman chooses to look for happiness in this marvelously entertaining and poignant novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bodyguard and The Rom-Commers.

"A hilarious and touching take on what it means to be a grown-up." - Julie Buxbaum, author of Admission and Tell Me Three Things

Sarah Harper isn't sure if the stupid decisions she sometimes makes are good choices in disguiseβ€”or if they're really just stupid. But either way, after forwarding an inappropriate email to her entire company, she suddenly finds herself out of a job.

So she goes home to Houstonβ€”and her sister, Mackieβ€”for Thanksgiving. But before Sarah can share her troubles with her sister, she learns that Mackie has some woes of her own: After years of trying, Mackie's given up on having a babyβ€”and plans to sell on eBay the entire nursery she's set up. Which gives Sarah a brilliant ideaβ€”an idea that could fix everyone's problems. An idea that gives Sarah the chance to take care of her big sister for onceβ€”instead of the other way around.

But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. After a decade away, Sarah is forced to confront one ghost from her past after another: the father she's lost touch with, the memories of her mother, the sweet guy she dumped horribly in high school. Soon everything that matters is on the lineβ€”and Sarah can only hope that by changing her life she has changed her luck, too.

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β€œA thoroughly enjoyable girlish romp.” Library Journal

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ISBN: 9780345507914

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 232g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Katherine Centeris theNew York Timesbestselling author ofWhat You Wish For,Happiness for Beginners,The Lost Husband(now a movie),and five other bittersweet comic novels abouthow life knocks us down-and how we get back up.BookPagecalls her "the reigning queen of comfort reads." She lives in her hometown of Houston with her husband and two kids.

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