Lottery, Wood. Yes. This book has some superficial similarities to Marcelo in the Real World—though Lottery is not categorized as a YA novel—and I feel about it much as I do about MitRW: I won’t read it again, and I didn’t love it, but the story was not without charm, and the writing was competent. I found the characters by and large to be more sympathetic than those in MitRW, though I did find the narrative voice to be occasionally tiresome.