Amy Bloom’s Lucky Us appeared on multiple Best Books of the Year lists after it was published in 2014, and the Iron Book Discussion Group will read this 1940s-set road novel in March 2026.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.
With their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, Lucky Us is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn’s beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species.
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Copies of Lucky Us can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and it’s also available to download through Overdrive/Libby as an ebook and an audiobook.
An in-person discussion of Lucky Us will be held at the library on Tuesday, March 10, at 6:00 PM. No registration is required, so please join us if you’d like to be part of the discussion.
Published on February 20, 2026.
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