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The Lucky Trap
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781957173542
Publisher: Three Skillet
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Greater Tri-County Good Neighbor Award goes out every year. And as Grandma says, a good neighbor is the luckiest man alive.
The real question is whether the luckiest man alive is also a good neighbor.
How lucky are you if you accidentally wreck a child's birthday party, disrupt a photographer's prize shot, play a role in breaking an ice sculpture by a renowned artist, and nearly burn down the neighborhood community center?
And that's just the start of the misfortunes that tumble out of the pages of this book, where even the best of intentions bring about mayhem that will have you chuckling until your teeth rattle.
But here's the thing: When you have the Luck of the Irish dogging your footsteps, all it takes is a lucky clover to keep the bad luck at bay.
When you're the luckiest man in the world, you learn to turn loose and let Lady Luck do the work for you ...
... even when you can't figure out just what she wants you to do.
As Grandma says, Just keep moving and no one can blame you.
Or if they do, at least they can't catch you.
Follow our main character through ten chapters of codified incompetence. He assumes he's a natural leader and views the catastrophes that ensue as personal growth. He is able to justify each disaster as fine and that things will eventually work out if he's just patient.
He frequently quotes Grandma and the idioms from his childhood as justification for his choices, even as he misapplies the messages.
Yet, he has one thing in his favor: the Luck of the Irish. After all, when you're Irish, luck is bound to find you, and when you discover a four-leaf clover, the rarest of them all, that's a win all around.
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