Who Took Mama’s Lotto Ticket?

Pearl Jenkins has played the same six numbers every Friday for twenty-two years. On her sixty-fifth birthday they finally hit: $4.2 million. By the time the cake comes out, the ticket is gone.

Everybody at the cookout had a reason. Her five grown kids, two ex-sons-in-law, a cousin nobody invited, and a church deacon who keeps showing up with casseroles. Every episode, somebody’s story falls apart.