It's June of 1990, all hell's breaking loose on Hunter Olive's tobacco farm, and his son Mike wants to keep it that way. The farmer's twenty-year-old son has come back for the summer with fourteen college friends and a mission to fight for Jackson Country's newest residents: the Mexican migrant workers pouring into North Carolina for the first time. Even as Mike pressures his own father for change and jabs accusatory fingers at his neighbors, a childhood rival and an intense love affair quickly jeopardize his best intensions, bringing hot days and nights to a violent, sudden boil. Eric B. Martin's sweeping and highly praised debut of young love and family feuds lays bare the new race and class wars of a swiftly-changing South. By turns lyrical and brutal, Luck echoes with the voices of unexpected characters: the self-assured musings of Hermelinda Salmeron; local wiseguy Harvey Dickerson philosophizing from beyond the grave; and a chorus of the county's consciousness at Eddie's Bar-N-Q.