Lais’s Reviews > The Lottery and Other Stories > Status Update

i just started the book but i wanted to say that i loved the introduction written by a. m. homes. i didn't know a lot about shirley jackson and the intro made me eager to discover more about the writer and her stories.

"Mrs. Stanley Hyman that was her married name.
Just the sound of it is so of a time, the perfect cloak from which she could peer out unnoticed, observe, take notes, work otherwise unseen."