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 the book that this book is going to end in sadness for one of them, but I keep furiously reading and unrealistically hoping until the last page that somehow it will work out for both of them.
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Reviewed for NetGalley and the Penguin First to Read program.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2016/12/lucky-boy.html
Reviewed for NetGalley and the Penguin First to Read program.
Solimar Castro Valdez is leaving her Mexican home to go to America and become an American citizen. In her quest to do so, she becomes involved with traffickers trying to get her and others into the States. She becomes involved with a group, one of whom (Checo) becomes her lover.
She is mistreated in many ways, but finds, once she settles with her cousin in Berkeley, CA, that she is pregnant.
She has a job as a housekeeper/nanny and is doing well, but not legally. She has her baby boy and is doing well, until it is found that she is not legal.
Ignacio, her baby boy, is taken from her and she is put into jail as a nonlegal. That is when Ignacio is put into a foster home with Rishi & Kavya Reddy. They grow to love him and want to adopt him.
Well-written and sad for both sides of this child's "parents".
She is mistreated in many ways, but finds, once she settles with her cousin in Berkeley, CA, that she is pregnant.
She has a job as a housekeeper/nanny and is doing well, but not legally. She has her baby boy and is doing well, until it is found that she is not legal.
Ignacio, her baby boy, is taken from her and she is put into jail as a nonlegal. That is when Ignacio is put into a foster home with Rishi & Kavya Reddy. They grow to love him and want to adopt him.
Well-written and sad for both sides of this child's "parents".
