Lucky boy
By: Shanthi Sekaran
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
ISBN-13: 9781410498311
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Illegal aliens; Motherhood; Mexicans; Married women; Large type books; Single mothers; Fiction
Description: "Eighteen years old and fizzing with optimism, Solimar Castro-Valdez embarks on a perilous journey across the Mexican border. Weeks later, she arrives in Berkeley, California, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. Undocumented and unmoored, Soli discovers that her son, Ignacio, can become her touchstone, and motherhood her identity in a world where she's otherwise invisible. Kavya Reddy has created a beautiful life in Berkeley, but then she can't get pregnant and that beautiful life seems suddenly empty. When Soli is placed in immigrant detention and Ignacio comes under Kavya's care, Kavya finally gets to be the singing, story-telling kind of mother she dreamed of being. But she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else's child. "Nacho" to Soli, and "Iggy" to Kavya, the boy is steeped in love, but his destiny and that of his two mothers teeters between two worlds as Soli fights to get back to him."--Amazon.com.
Notes: "A novel"--Cover.