Perry L Crandall is an amazing main character. He is self-proclaimed “slow” with an IQ of 76, easily suggestible and naive. He lives with his Gram who raised him until she dies (no spoiler here – that fact is in the 1st couple of pages and on the back of the book jacket!) then wins the lottery.

Perry’s family is full of “smart” but irredeemably reprehensible users who abandon and take advantage of him after Gram’s death and then try to reappear once good fortune hits. Luckily, Perry’s Gram taught him well and he has friends who are better family than any of the surviving relatives will ever be.

Read this book. You will laugh and cry.