Jackpot Summer - Softcover

Friedland, Elyssa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593638549 ISBN 13: 9780593638545

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2024

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After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy lives will transform into sleek, storybook perfection–but they couldn’t be more wrong.
 
The four Jacobson children were raised to respect the value of a dollar. Their mother reused tea bags and refused to pay retail; their father taught them to budget before he taught them to ride a bike. And yet, now that they’re adults, their financial lives are in disarray.
 
The siblings reunite when their newly widowed father puts their Jersey Shore beach house on the market. Packing up childhood memories isn’t easy, especially when there’s other drama brewing. Matthew is miserable at his corporate law job and wishes he had more time with his son; Laura’s marriage is imploding in spectacular fashion; Sophie’s art career is stalled while her boyfriend’s is on the rise; and Noah’s total failure to launch has him doing tech repair for pennies.
 
When Noah sees an ad for a Powerball drawing, he and his sisters go in on tickets while their brother Matthew passes.  All hell breaks loose when one of the tickets is a winner and three of the four Jacobsons become overnight millionaires. Without their mother’s guidance, and with their father busy playing pickleball in a Florida retirement village, the once close-knit siblings search for comfort in shiny new toys instead of each other.
 
It’s not long before the Jacobsons start to realize that they’ll never feel rich unless they can pull their family back together.
 

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Elyssa Friedland is the acclaimed author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel, The Floating Feldmans, The Intermission, and Love and Miss Communication. Elyssa is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School and currently teaches novel writing at Yale. She lives with her husband and three children in New York City, the best place on earth.

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Los Angeles Times

CALIFORNIA MAN WINS $2B JACKPOT:
HOMELESS THREE YEARS LATER

By Macy Roko

Billy Rockwell knows better than anyone what it feels like to go from rags to riches overnight. He's the winner of the largest jackpot in the country's history, a whopping $2.3 billion. And for a period of eighteen months, Rockwell was living large. But by the third anniversary of the historic win, the country's biggest winner was living in a homeless encampment ten miles from his foreclosed Beverly Hills mansion.

"Booze, drugs and women," Rockwell said, speaking from inside his tent, which he shares with three other homeless individuals. "They will get you every time." His only remaining possession of value is a rhino horn from Tanzania that he purchased on eBay for $2 million. "It was supposed to bring me luck," Rockwell said. The horn turned out to be a replica.

Rockwell isn't alone in falling on hard times after hitting it big. According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, a staggering seventy percent of lottery winners go bankrupt within five years.

"Most winners go hog wild," Everett McPherson, an accountant with nationally recognized firm Ernst & Young, said. "And they don't realize just how large a slice of the pie Uncle Sam is going to take." McPherson explained that taxes can eat up nearly half the advertised value of the jackpot.

"Billy was no good with money from day one," his ex-wife, Jeannie Rockwell, said. "The Elvis who married us in Vegas swindled him out of three hundred bucks on our wedding night."

Des Moines Register

IOWA TOWN POOLS TICKETS AND WINS BIG

By Carson Roberts

The residents of Holly Springs, Iowa, a quaint hamlet with a population of six thousand, have collectively won the Iowa state lottery. The $40-million prize was divided equally among the town residents, each of whom contributed five dollars toward the purchase.

Holly Springs is a factory town where life centers around potluck backyard barbecues and celebrations at the town pool. The day the residents discovered their win, the mayor organized a parade and fireworks display.

"Our citizens are simple people," Mayor Julia Stillman said of how the lottery win will change life in Holly Springs. "I used my share of the winnings to build a man cave for my husband so he leaves me in peace."

Harrisburg Gazette

LOCAL FIREFIGHTER WINS LUCKY BUCKS LOTTO:
GIVES EVERY CHILD IN TOWN A FIRE POLE

By Emily Emerson

"There's nothing like hearing that 'Wheeeeeee!'"

That's what Dwayne Jenkins said when asked what prompted him to buy every child in his town of East Rocklin, Pennsylvania, a fire pole after he won $6 million in the Lucky Bucks lottery.

Jenkins has been a firefighter in East Rocklin for nearly twenty years. He said he knew he wanted to fight fires since he was a little boy. It was the pole that attracted him.

"I couldn't believe there was a job where I could slide down a pole," Jenkins said, arm around his wife, Nola, on the porch of their new house, a 3,000-square-foot ranch on four acres of pristine farmland. The house was the couple's biggest splurge after the win, but Jenkins seems far more excited about gifting the fire poles.

"Not all the parents are happy with me," Jenkins said. "There have been a few broken arms."

The Star-Ledger

LONG BEACH ISLAND SIBLINGS AND A RUMSON GRANDMOTHER OF 12 WIN BIG SLICE OF POWERBALL PIE

Drama Surrounds Sibling Win

By Jeanette Espinosa

It's time for people to stop thumbing their noses at the Garden State. Making lottery history, two of the four winning tickets of a $261 million Powerball were claimed by New Jersey residents who purchased their winning tickets over July Fourth weekend. The chances of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338, so having two winners from New Jersey is quite the reason to celebrate. Sources in Governor Phil Murphy's office are saying a ticker-tape parade is under consideration.

Mabel Collins of Rumson, an eighty-two-year-old retired elementary school bus driver, took home over $30 million before taxes. She said she plans to use the money to help her local church and shower her twelve grandchildren with gifts.

"I'm at Target every day now buying gifts for my babies," Ms. Collins said. "It's constant Christmas over here."

The other New Jersey winner is a set of siblings with a family home in Beach Haven on the south end of Long Beach Island. The three siblings, whose last name is Jacobson, were quickly dubbed the Jackpot Jacobsons. The nickname has been adopted by the local summer community where the family has owned a home for more than three decades.

Unlike Ms. Collins, each of the Jacobson siblings declined to comment on the win. Public records show that Laura Jacobson is in contract to purchase a 7,000-square-foot home in upscale Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Sister Sophie is listed on LinkedIn as a public school teacher in Brooklyn, but calls to the school indicate she is no longer employed there. The third sibling, Noah Jacobson, works as a private tech-support specialist but appears to have no official business or property registered to his name. One Beach Haven resident who wished to remain anonymous but described herself as a close family friend was not optimistic about the Jacobsons.

"Drama, drama, drama," she said. "That's all that winning the lottery has done for that poor family. Well, maybe poor isn't the right word."

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Sophie

"Well that was depressing," Sophie said. "I'm surprisingly hungry considering we were at Mom's grave less than ten minutes ago." She tilted the syrup dispenser and let it ooze over her pancake stack.

"I am too," Noah said, lifting a forkful of scrambled eggs. "But these eggs are awful compared to the ones at Chegg."

"You think everything is better at Chegg," Sophie said, referencing the Chicken or the Egg, one of the famous eateries on Long Beach Island.

"It is," the rest of the table responded, a chorus of voices that included Noah, Matthew, Laura, Laura's husband Doug and the patriarch of the Jacobson clan, Leo.

"For the hundredth time, you did not get food poisoning from Chegg," Laura said to Sophie, lowering the gigantic Kenilworth Diner menu she'd been using to hide her tear-streaked face. "You were puking because you drank too much of Dad's Chivas Regal. I saw you."

Leo raised an eyebrow at what apparently was coming as news to him.

Sophie considered Laura's claim. Maybe she had been conflating memories. The night of her alleged food poisoning was nearly twenty years ago.

"I thought the gravestone was very nice," Matthew, the oldest Jacobson sibling, said. His comment brought them back to why they were gathered in northern New Jersey on a sunny afternoon in June. It was for the unveiling of the gravestone marking the place their mother was buried. "I think Mom would have approved."

"She more than approved," Leo said, wiping Tabasco sauce from his mouth with a paper napkin. "She designed it."

The siblings' gasps quickly gave way to wry chuckling. They shouldn't have expected anything less from Sylvia Jacobson. Sophie considered the tombstone inscription with renewed appreciation, especially the line about canasta, the card game that was their mother's addiction.

Sylvia Rose Jacobson

February 6, 1947-June 30, 2023

Devoted Wife, Beloved Mother to the Fantastic Foursome, Book Lover, Volunteer, Jersey Girl

"Awaiting Special Hands in Heaven"

"Did I ever tell you that Mom emailed me a detailed description of what the girls and I should wear to her funeral, including accessories?" Laura said. "Oh, and that Doug shouldn't wear a navy tie."

"And I didn't. I wore yellow," Laura's husband said proudly.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0593638549
• ISBN 13: 9780593638545
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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