Luck Favors The Prepared

By: Nathaniel Barber

Luck Favors the Prepared delicately skirts between observation and confessions while burrowing to the heart of family and death, home ownership and online role playing games, a high school music department run amok, horribly misguided activism and starting a new life with all the same old bad habits.

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Book Description

Luck Favors the Prepared is a straightforward read, shifting from remote and hilarious documentary to a lived-in memoir, dreamily recalling the absurd dark comedy of death and divorce, landlordship, family, role playing video games, high school, misguided activism, customer service and sudden, unexpected wardrobe failures.

As a son of the Pacific Northwest, his stories are nestled in the mossy bosom of Washington, Oregon and Northern California. His characters and rich dialogue are plucked from the past and set to life. They are belligerents and buffoons. They are the beautiful and the bewildering, plagued by dark and grotesque motives and juxtaposed with a loving objectivity that suspends judgement for a world where no one is defined by their worst deeds.

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