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E vEN two weeks after the fact, what happened is still twisted in my head like what a battlefield must be like-too many events going on at once to make sense of any of them. I wake in my room, if I've slept at all, and hear my stepmother, Glorieta, downstairs making breakfast, and my father, who goes outside to get the newspaper. The shower comes on in the bathroom down the hall-Yolanda is up. She works at Chipotle and is late. Light is already breaking over the Lakota hills and across the wheat and corn and alfalfa fields to the buildings collected here years ago because of the railroad, which still to this day, hauls coal and new cars and other junk people claim they need. My father's house is at the edge of a cheap subdivision, and my room is at the back, the view cut off by the corner of the Carters' house. Still a big sky fades up into sunrise over the Hartbooths' alfalfa field that needs windrowing and onto the mesa at the horizon. Before I'm fully awake, I'm leaving town, though I haven't yet figured out how or with what money. I have permission to miss school for as long as I need to settle down, undergo counseling, and get past the trauma-whatever "get past" means: how muc

Who reads Lucky?

Author

Kent Nelson

Publisher

Project MUSE; Johns Hopkins University Press (ISSN 0037-3052)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)