"A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality\, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.
\nSolimar Castro Valdez is eighteen an d drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/M exican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkele y\, CA\, dazed by first love found then lost\, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American iden tity\, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession\, you g uard it with your life. For Soli\, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth.
\nKavya Reddy has always followed her heart\, much to her parents' chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Ber keley sorority house\, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya's mid-thirties. When she can't get pregnant\, this des ire will test her marriage\, it will test her sanity\, and it will set Kav ya and her husband\, Rishi\, on a collision course with Soli\, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya's care. As Kavya learns to be a mother - the singing\, story-telling\, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being - she builds her love on a fault line \, her heart wrapped around someone else's child.
\nLucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive b eauty 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 Sil icon valley\, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction\; the results are moving and revelatory."
\n- From Goodread s
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