Lucky boy

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"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"-- "Solimar es una joven indocumentada en Estados Unidos a quien un embarazo no esperado le otorga identidad en un mundo en el que es invisible, pero la fantasía acaba cuando la arrestan por su condición migratoria. Por otro lado, Kavya es una migrante de la India que disfruta de una vida perfecta al lado de su esposo - un joven brillante de Silicon Valley-, excepto porque embarazarse. Repentinamente un milagro sucede cuando la dan en custodia a Ignacio, el hijo de Solimar, quien estará con ella y con su marido hasta que la adopción pueda concretarse, cuando Soli sea departada. "Nacho" para Soli, "Iggy" para Kavya, está rodeado de amor, pero su destino y los opuestos mundos de sus dos madres se debaten con tanta fuerza como aquella con la que Soli lucha para recuperarlo. Lucky Boy es una conmovedora y reveladora novela sobre la maternidad y el amor que todo lo puede."--Back cover.

subjects: Married women,  Motherhood,  Mexicanos,  Single mothers,  Fiction,  Illegal aliens,  Maternidad,  Mexicans,  Extranjeros ilegales,  Madres solteras,  Mujeres casadas,  Ficción

Places: United States,  Estados Unidos