A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. “Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People “A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”/5(). · Title: Lucky Boy Author: Shanthi Sekaran Page Count: pages Genre: Literary Fiction, Multiple Perspectives Tone: Sympathetic, Moving Summary: A wrenching emotional battle ensues between Soli, an undocumented Mexican single mother, and Kavya, an Indian-American chef who cannot have children, when Soli’s infant son is placed in Kavya’s care during an immigration Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Lucky Boy is Shanthi Sekaran’s novel that follows two mothers who are bound together in their love for a single child. Solimar Castro-Valdez sets out on a dangerous journey across the US/Mexican border, and when she arrives at her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley, CA, a few weeks later, she discovers she is pregnant, her first love having quickly appeared and disappeared.
A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. "Sekaran has written a page-turner that's touching and all too real."—People "A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.". Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story, no obvious hero. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon valley, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. Kavya and Rishi make an effort to adopt Iggy when Soli is slated for repatriation, and Shanthi Sekaran's poignant Lucky Boy (Putnam) tenderly follows these two women as they love this boy with every ounce of breath in their bodies, though one of them is going to have her world shattered. The impressive feat that Sekaran, AS '03 (MA), pulls off.
Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story, no obvious hero. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon valley, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. Exploring the ways in which dreams and determination can reshape a family, Sekaran transforms real life into a thing of beauty. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of. A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. “Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People.
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