Shanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. She is the author of The Prayer Room and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Best New American Voices, and Canteen, as well as online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. A California native, she lives in Berkeley with her husband and two children. Lucky Boy is her second novel.
Praise for Lucky Boy
“Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too
real.”—People
“Offers a brilliantly agonizing setup...[An] exceptional
novel.”—The New York Times
“Pulses with vitality, pumped with the life breath of human sin and
love.”—USA Today
“Topical and timely...Sekaran’s book invites the reader to engage
empathetically with thorny geopolitical issues that feel organic
and fully inhabited by her finely rendered characters.”—Chicago
Tribune
“With wit, empathy and a page-turning plot, the novel stirs ethical
questions...that the author rightly refuses to answer. Sekaran has
written a tender, artful story of the bravery of loving in the face
of certain grief.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of
motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez,
author of The Book of Unknown Americans
“Richly emotional.”—Good Housekeeping
“Like M.L. Stedman in The Light Between Oceans, Sekaran
presents a complex moral dilemma that leaves readers incapable of
choosing sides...A must read.”—BookPage
“Deeply compassionate...Delivers penetrating insights into the
intangibles of motherhood and indeed, all
humanity.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Both timely and timeless, depicting the comedy and delights of the
world as well as its brutalities and injustices.”—Edan
Lepucki, author of California
“A moving story.”—InStyle
“Heartbreaking and timely...Explores motherhood and lengths we will
go to in order to achieve our dreams.”—Real Simple
“Will leave you spellbound.”—Bustle
“Sekaran is a master of drawing detailed, richly layered characters
and relationships; here are the subtly nuanced lines of love and
expectation between parents and children; here, too are moments of
great depth and insight.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A heartfelt and moving novel that challenges our notions of
motherhood and the true meaning of home.”—Molly Antopol, author
of The UnAmericans
“[H]umanizes current discussions of immigration, privilege, and
what it means to be an American...Would be a strong choice for book
clubs.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“There are few easy solutions to life’s toughest problems, but
Lucky Boy goes a long way toward putting a humanizing face on
them.”—ShelfAwareness
“A gripping, obsessive, character-driven narrative of sacrifice and
identity—where the lives of two women become forever tangled in the
roots of motherhood.”—Simon Van Booy, author of The Illusion
of Separateness
“You'll have a hard time putting down this book, and when you
finish it, you'll have a hard time not thinking, and aching, about
it for a long, long time.”—Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, author
of Barefoot Dogs
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