LEADER 03247nam 22005773 450 001 9910154664103321 005 20210901203214.0 010 $a1-101-98225-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971949 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6045239 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6045239 035 $a(OCoLC)969443578 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971949 100 $a20210901d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLucky Boy 210 1$aEast Rutherford :$cPenguin Publishing Group,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (411 pages) 311 $a1-101-98224-1 330 $a"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession, you guard it with your life. For Soli, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. Kavya Reddy has always followed her heart, much to her parents' chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya's mid-thirties. When she can't get pregnant, this desire will test her marriage, it will test her sanity, and it will set Kavya and her husband, Rishi, on a collision course with Soli, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya's care. As Kavya learns to be a mother--the singing, story-telling, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being--she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else's child. Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story, no single obvious hero. Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aSingle mothers$vFiction 606 $aMotherhood$vFiction 606 $aNoncitizens$vFiction 606 $aMexicans$zUnited States$vFiction 606 $aMarried women$vFiction 606 $aFICTION / Contemporary Women$2bisacsh 606 $aFICTION / Literary$2bisacsh 606 $aFICTION / Family Life$2bisacsh 615 0$aSingle mothers 615 0$aMotherhood 615 0$aNoncitizens 615 0$aMexicans 615 0$aMarried women 615 7$aFICTION / Contemporary Women. 615 7$aFICTION / Literary. 615 7$aFICTION / Family Life. 676 $a813.6 686 $aFIC044000$aFIC019000$aFIC045000$2bisacsh 700 $aSekaran$b Shanthi$01247500 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154664103321 996 $aLucky Boy$92891907 997 $aUNINA