What would you do for $35,000,000?
Jessi Bell once daydreamed about all the things she would buy with $1,000,000, but after spending her last dollar on a chance to win $35,000,000, she loses the lottery ticket. When the winning numbers are announced and she believes she has won the jackpot, Jessi sets off on a wild ride to recover the missing ticket.
During her quest, she meets an aardvark with muscle car envy, a truck stop waitress serving more than biscuits and coffee, and a former chef with a cocaine habit who sends her into the back roads of North Carolina.
Did Jessi lose her lottery ticket in Nick's Mustang? Will Jessi get to the ticket before anyone else cashes it in? Will her best friend Irene save her from being sold into the sex slave trade? After the truth is revealed, will Jessi still be a winner?
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By quiltnmomi
Feb 21, 2008
"A Rollicking Romp" Wild ride is a rollicking romp through a few incredible days and nights as Jessi Bell chases her fortune across Virginia and into North Carolina. The story is deceptively simple, Jessi has a winning lottery ticket which has fallen from her pocket in her boyfriend's car. however, the couple has since broken up, the car has been sold, and that's only the beginning of the complications the heroine must overcome on her way to riches or rags. The genius of the book lies in the subtle interplay between chance, choice, and the caprices of whatever higher powers might exist. Jessi finds herself asking questions in a closet but is it prayer or delusion? The form of the being who answers her call all but demands a sequel. The author brings wit and a lively philosophy to life on the pages of this delightful book. Layering characters who expose gender and racial stereotypes and then turn those stereotypes on end, Ms. Thompson's confident writing carries the reader... More > to questions that are almost too deep to be entertaining. But story trumps in the end and philosophy has never been so much fun.< Less
