Lucky boy
Record details
- ISBN: 0735212279
- ISBN: 9780735212275
- ISBN: 1101982241 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781101982242 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1101982241 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781101982242 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781101982242
- ISBN: 1101982241
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Physical Description:
472 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
print - Edition: First G.P. Putnam's Sons international edition.
- Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in 2016. "A novel"--Jacket cover. |
Summary, etc.: | "A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together. Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, 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 identity, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession, you guard it with your life. For Soli, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. Kavya Reddy has always followed her heart, much to her parents' chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley 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 desire will test her marriage, it will test her sanity, and it will set Kavya 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. 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 single obvious hero. Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory"-- |
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Subject: | Undocumented immigrants Single mothers Fiction Motherhood Fiction Illegal aliens Fiction Mexicans United States Fiction Married women Fiction Illegal aliens Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 26 of 26 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Weston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Weston Public Library | SEKARAN (Text) | 34053139292154 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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