Lucky Boy (novel)

Lucky Boy is a 2017 novel written by Shanthi Sekaran and her second book.[1][2][3]

Lucky Boy
AuthorShanthi Sekaran
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherPutnam[1]
Publication date
2017
Pages472 pp[2]
ISBN978-1-101-98224-2

Plot

Soli, an eighteen-year-old woman, enters the United States illegally from Mexico and an Indian American woman named Kavya struggles to have a baby with her husband, who works in Silicon Valley. The two stories converge around a baby, the "lucky boy".

Critical reception

Steph Cha of USA Today wrote "It’s easy to imagine the lives of these characters even off the page. Lucky Boy pulses with vitality, pumped with the life breath of human sin and love."[4]

Kathleen Rooney of the Chicago Tribune said "In her sweeping, deep and strikingly compassionate second novel, "Lucky Boy," Shanthi Sekaran weaves these two elemental narratives with emotionally arresting aplomb."[3]

Awards and honors

Lucky Boy became a finalist of William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in 2018.[5]

Television series

A television series based on Lucky Boy is being developed by UnbelEVAble Entertainment, starring Eva Longoria and David Schulner.[6]

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References
  1. "Lucky Boy". Publishers Weekly. 2017.
  2. NPR STAFF (January 10, 2017). "Immigration And Infertility Bring Two Mothers Together Over One 'Lucky Boy'". NPR.
  3. Rooney, Kathleen (January 19, 2017). "'Lucky Boy' by Shanthi Sekaran explores illegal immigration and adoption". Chicago Tribune.
  4. Cha, Steph (January 14, 2017). "Two warring countries and one 'Lucky' little boy". USA Today.
  5. Lucky Boy (description) Stanford University Libraries
  6. Andreeva, Nellie (18 November 2017). "Eva Longoria Teams With David Schulner & Nisha Ganatra For 'Lucky Boy' Immigrant Drama Series Based On Book". Deadline Hollywood.


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