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The Resource Lucky boy, Shanthi Sekaran

Lucky boy, Shanthi Sekaran

Label
Lucky boy
Title
Lucky boy
Statement of responsibility
Shanthi Sekaran
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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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Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
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1977-
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Sekaran, Shanthi
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Noncitizens
  • Married women
  • Mexicans
  • Motherhood
  • Single mothers
  • Illegal immigration
  • Noncitizens
  • Noncitizens
  • Illegal immigration
  • Undocumented Immigrants
  • Femmes mariées
  • Maternité
  • Mères de famille monoparentale
  • Immigration clandestine
  • Immigrants clandestins
  • FICTION
  • FICTION
  • FICTION
  • Illegal immigration
  • Noncitizens
  • Married women
  • Mexicans
  • Motherhood
  • Single mothers
  • United States
  • Noncitizens
Label
Lucky boy, Shanthi Sekaran
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "A novel"--Jacket cover
  • Originally published in 2016
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
944380218
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First G.P. Putnam's Sons international edition.
Extent
472 pages
Isbn
9780735212275
Lccn
2016008418
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)944380218
Label
Lucky boy, Shanthi Sekaran
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • "A novel"--Jacket cover
  • Originally published in 2016
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
944380218
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First G.P. Putnam's Sons international edition.
Extent
472 pages
Isbn
9780735212275
Lccn
2016008418
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)944380218

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