The Law of Large Numbers

By TK Kenyon
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Published: June 21, 2011
Words: 7,607 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458066879

Short description

Frank Tyra, a physics graduate student, can’t pay his tuition or buy ramen noodles because his blackjack team went bust. When one of his undergraduate students offers to bankroll a new team, Frank teaches a bunch of frat boys to count cards in Las Vegas. Arizona State is a party school, and when his new team starts to party away their big chance, Frank has figure out how to survive.

Extended description

Frank Tyra, a graduate student in physics, can’t pay his tuition or keep himself in ramen noodles and beer because his blackjack team went bust at the poker tables. When one of his less-than-bright undergraduate students offers to bankroll a new team, Frank teaches a bunch of frat boys to count cards in Las Vegas. Arizona State is a party school, and when his new team starts to party away their chance to bring down the house, Frank has to find some way to survive.

Print length = 20 pages.

In this unsettling exploration of science and the odds of winning Vegas, TK Kenyon again explores what it is to be human. Booklist declared in a starred review that TK Kenyon is "definitely an author to watch."

TK Kenyon is an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, novelist, award-winning short story writer, pharmaceutical industry regulatory consultant, technical writer, molecular virologist, neuroscientist, minivan-driving mom, happy wife, cat slave, P90X devotee, surfer, high-handicap golfer,.. (Read more) Frank Tyra, a graduate student in physics, can’t pay his tuition or keep himself in ramen noodles and beer because his blackjack team went bust at the poker tables. When one of his less-than-bright undergraduate students offers to bankroll a new team, Frank teaches a bunch of frat boys to count cards in Las Vegas. Arizona State is a party school, and when his new team starts to party away their chance to bring down the house, Frank has to find some way to survive.

Print length = 20 pages.

In this unsettling exploration of science and the odds of winning Vegas, TK Kenyon again explores what it is to be human. Booklist declared in a starred review that TK Kenyon is "definitely an author to watch."

TK Kenyon is an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, novelist, award-winning short story writer, pharmaceutical industry regulatory consultant, technical writer, molecular virologist, neuroscientist, minivan-driving mom, happy wife, cat slave, P90X devotee, surfer, high-handicap golfer, scuba diver, gourmet chef, mostly vegetarian, chocolatier, gardener, capsaicin addict, caffeine junkie, Apache and Scot descendant, native Arizonan, Connectikite, nouveau feminist, political moderate with extremist tendencies, radical atheist, Buddhist-curious, occasional UU, Tamil Ayer Brahmin Hindu by marriage, ex-actress, grown-up child beauty queen, PhD, MFA, BS (in so many ways), ASU Sun Devil, Iowa Hawkeye, UPenn Quaker, and always looking for something interesting to do. She denies being able to count cards but is unusually lucky at blackjack.

Short story, blackjack, Arizona State, bringing down the house, literary, physics, the law of large numbers, statistics, Las Vegas, poker
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literary, short story, poker, literary fiction, blackjack, literary scifi, literary darwinism, literary book, lab lit, arizona state, blackjack team, tk kenyon

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