Lucky Boy
Enter for a chance to win one of 25 copies of LUCKY BOY. Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and dazed with 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...
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Enter for a chance to win one of 25 copies of LUCKY BOY. Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and dazed with 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
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781101982242 (1101982241)
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Lucky Boy-Shanthi Sekaran, author; Soneela Nankani, Roxana Ortega, narrators This novel is about two mothers engaged in a custody fight over a child called Ignacio. He is alternately called Iggy and Nacho by the two women who love him. Who is the best mother for him? Is a two parent family better? W...
This book was such a good read. Emotionally, it had me so torn. I wanted to root for the birth mother, but she was so poor and really had nothing to offer this child other than love. The foster parents who wanted to adopt this child had tried for years to have one of their own. They wanted a child s...
Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran, through a heartbreaking story, documents serious societal issues. Infertility. Motherhood. Adoption. Immigration. The book grounds the big issues through the characters of Solimar and Kavya, two mothers deeply and unequivocally in love with a child. I know throughout th...
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