Lucky Boy

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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.

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Praise for Lucky Boy

Sekaran has written a page-turner thats touching and all too real.People

Offers a brilliantly agonizing setup...[An] exceptional novel.TheNew York Times

Pulses with vitality, pumped with the life breath of human sin and love.USA Today

Topical and timely...Sekarans book invites the reader to engage empathetically with thorny geopolitical issues that feel organic and fully inhabited by her finely rendered characters.Chicago Tribune

With wit, empathy and a page-turning plot, the novel stirs ethical questions...that the author rightly refuses to answer. Sekaran has written a tender, artful story of the bravery of loving in the face of certain grief.San Francisco Chronicle

A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.CristinaHenrquez, author ofThe Book of Unknown Americans

Richly emotional.Good Housekeeping

Like M.L. Stedman inThe Light Between Oceans, Sekaran presents a complex moral dilemma that leaves readers incapable of choosing sides...A must read.BookPage

Deeply compassionate...Delivers penetrating insights into the intangibles of motherhood and indeed, all humanity.Booklist(starred review)

Both timely and timeless, depicting the comedy and delights of the world as well as its brutalities and injustices.Edan Lepucki, author ofCalifornia

A moving story.InStyle

Heartbreaking and timely...Explores motherhood and lengths we will go to in order to achieve our dreams.Real Simple

Will leave you spellbound.Bustle

Sekaran is a master of drawing detailed, richly layered characters and relationships; here are the subtly nuanced lines of love and expectation between parents and children; here, too are moments of great depth and insight.Kirkus Reviews(starred review)

A heartfelt and moving novel that challenges our notions of motherhood and the true meaning of home.Molly Antopol, author ofThe UnAmericans

[H]umanizes current discussions of immigration, privilege, and what it means to be an American...Would be a strong choice for book clubs.Library Journal(starred review)

There are few easy solutions to lifes toughest problems, but Lucky Boygoes a long way toward putting a humanizing face on them.ShelfAwareness

A gripping, obsessive, character-driven narrative of sacrifice and identitywhere the lives of two women become forever tangled in the roots of motherhood.Simon Van Booy, author ofThe Illusion of Separateness

You'll have a hard time putting down this book, and when you finish it, you'll have a hard time not thinking, and aching, about it for a long, long time.Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, author ofBarefoot Dogs

Author Bio

Shanthi Sekaranteaches creative writing at California College of the Arts, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto. She is the author of The Prayer Room and her work has appeared in theNew York Times,Best New American Voices,andCanteen, as well as online atZyzzyvaandMutha Magazine. A California native, she lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children. Lucky Boy is her second novel.