''Lucky Boy'' is a 2017 novel written by Shanthi Sekaran and her second book.

Plot

Soli, an eighteen-year-old woman, enters the United States illegally from Mexico and an

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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".

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." 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." In 2018, ''Lucky Boy'' was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was longlisted for the

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Television series

A television series based on ''Lucky Boy'' is being developed by UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, starring Eva Longoria and

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References

{{reflist 2017 American novels G. P. Putnam's Sons books English-language novels