ust as she did in her New York Times Notable debut novel, The Metal
Shredders, Nancy Zafris follows a colorful cast of characters into
uncharted fictional territory, this time landing in the canyon country
of the desert Southwest in 1954. For motivations as straightforward as
striking it rich to reasons far more complex and counfounding, they each
embark on very personal divergent journeys across an unforgiving
countryside, even while their quest to find uranium unites them. By
turns meditative and funny, frightening, witty and refreshingly wise,
Lucky Strike explores the ways that language simply put can mine the
inexpressable. In the process, a young widow and her two children learn
much about uranium but even more about the nature of the love that binds
them. This is a story to touch your heart.