Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch Book Discussion via Zoom: Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

Eighteen years old and filled with optimism, Soli Castro-Valdez embarks on a journey across the Mexican border and arrives in California, dazed and pregnant. She soon discovers motherhood as her identity in a world where she’s otherwise invisible.

Kavya Reddy has created a beautiful life with her husband, but then she can’t get pregnant and that beautiful life seems empty. When Soli is placed in immigrant detention and her son comes under Kavya’s care, Kavya finally gets to be the kind of mother she dreamed of being. But she builds her love around someone else’s child.

The destiny of this boy and his two mothers teeters between two worlds as Soli fights to get back to him.