The Good Luck of Right Now

  • Author: Matthew Quick
  • Narrator: Oliver Wyman
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 7:52:38
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Synopsis

Call it fate
Call it synchronicity
Call it an act of God
Call it . . . The Good Luck of Right Now

For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday Mass, and the library learn how to fly?

Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. In her final days, Mom called him Richard—there must be a cosmic connection. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life by writing Richard Gere a series of letters. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women, are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man's heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own.

A struggling priest, a "Girlbrarian," her feline-loving, foulmouthed brother, and the spirit of Richard Gere join the quest to help Bartholomew. In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the Cat Parliament and find Bartholomew's biological father . . . and discover so much more.

Chapters

  • 001_The Good Luck of Right Now_Intro Announcements

    Duration: 32s
  • 002_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 1

    Duration: 23min
  • 003_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 2

    Duration: 21min
  • 004_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 3

    Duration: 12min
  • 005_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 4

    Duration: 32min
  • 006_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 5

    Duration: 18min
  • 007_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 6

    Duration: 20min
  • 008_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 7

    Duration: 45min
  • 009_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 8

    Duration: 43min
  • 010_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 9

    Duration: 27min
  • 011_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 10

    Duration: 22min
  • 012_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 11

    Duration: 36min
  • 013_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 12

    Duration: 33min
  • 014_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 13

    Duration: 42min
  • 015_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 14

    Duration: 23min
  • 016_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 15

    Duration: 23min
  • 017_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 16

    Duration: 24min
  • 018_The Good Luck of Right Now_Chapter 17

    Duration: 16min
  • 019_The Good Luck of Right Now_Outro Announcements

    Duration: 01min
  • sample

    Duration: 01min