The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)

by Shirley Jackson

“Women have always done men the favor of reading their work, but the men have not returned the favor.”

SOMETIMES, she thought, stacking the dishes in the kitchen, sometimes I wonder if men are quite sane, any of them. Maybe they’re all just crazy and every other woman knows it but me, and my mother never told me and my roommate just didn’t mention it and all the other wives think I know….