The Bingo Palace is a novel not only about love, but money too and it destructive and destroying power.
The Bingo Palace, a building which Lipsha compares to a circus tent is the reservation’s local gambling spot, where regular bingo players gamble daily in hope to win the jackpot. Working at the Bingo Palace, Lipsha’s job leads him closer to a spiritual awakening and while he realizes that people’s desire for luck for money is a wrong direction, Shawnee does not. She is in love with Lipsha, but recognizes in Lyman the Mr. Right of the billboards “backlighted, smiling, every hair in its place, date and place of birth typed in carefully.” Because of his wealth, she even considers marriage with Lyman, unable to see his true identity, a dark-minded
