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
Shanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel, The Prayer Room, was published by MacAdam Cage. A California native, she lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children.
Praise for Lucky Boy "Sekaran has written a page-turner that's
touching and all too real."--People "Offers a brilliantly agonizing
setup...[An] exceptional novel."--The New York Times "Pulses with
vitality, pumped with the life breath of human sin and love."--USA
Today "Topical and timely...Sekaran's 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."--Cristina HenrĂquez, author
of The Book of Unknown Americans "Richly emotional."--Good
Housekeeping "Like M.L. Stedman in The 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 of California "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 of
The 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 life's toughest problems, but Lucky Boy
goes a long way toward putting a humanizing face on
them."--ShelfAwareness "A gripping, obsessive, character-driven
narrative of sacrifice and identity--where the lives of two women
become forever tangled in the roots of motherhood."--Simon Van
Booy, author of The 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 of Barefoot Dogs
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