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Paperback
Published: 5th September 2017
Hardback, Large Print Edition
Published: 8th March 2017
Paperback
Published: 12th January 2017
Lucky Boy: A Novel
By (Author) Shanthi Sekaran
Prentice Hall Press
Prentice Hall Press
12th January 2017
United States
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
480
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
The story of an undocumented Mexican woman, her pregnancy, and an Indian-American wife desperate for a child, Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. When Solimar makes it across the border into America, pregnant and full of hope, she wasn't prepared to be detained and have her son taken away from her. Likewise, Kavya didn't expect to wrap her heart around someone else's child. The reality of their separate situations is moving and revelatory. A heart-wrenching story taken from real life and applied to fiction.
Shanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel, The Prayer Room, was published by MacAdam Cage. A California native, she lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children.