Lucky boy
(Audiobook CD)
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Published
[Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2017].
ISBN
9781524703028, 1524703028
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Matteson Area Public Library District - Stacks | CD FIC SEKARAN | On Shelf |
Midlothian Public Library - Adult Fiction | AUDIOBOOK SEK | On Shelf |
Oak Brook Public Library - Adult Book On CD Fiction | CD SEKARAN | On Shelf |
Westmont Public Library - Adult 1st Floor | BOOK CD SEKARAN | On Shelf |
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Published
[Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2017].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
14 audio discs (approximately 16 1/2 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9781524703028, 1524703028
UPC
9781524703028
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Title from disc label.
General Note
"Release Date: January 10, 2017"--Books on Tape website.
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Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Soneela Nankani and Roxana Ortega.
Description
The plight of undocumented immigrants is nothing new; in pitting two very different kinds of immigrants against each other, one comfortably assimilated, the other helpless in every sense, this story tells of hard choices and a mother's love.
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"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together. Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession, you guard it with your life. For Soli, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. Kavya Reddy has always followed her heart, much to her parents' chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya's mid-thirties. When she can't get pregnant, this desire will test her marriage, it will test her sanity, and it will set Kavya and her husband, Rishi, on a collision course with Soli, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya's care. As Kavya learns to be a mother--the singing, story-telling, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being--she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else's child. Lucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story, no single obvious hero. Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory"--,Provided by publisher.
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AUDIOBOOK CD
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sekaran, S., Nankani, S., & Ortega, R. (2017). Lucky boy (Unabridged.). Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sekaran, Shanthi, 1977-, Soneela, Nankani and Roxana Ortega. 2017. Lucky Boy. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sekaran, Shanthi, 1977-, Soneela, Nankani and Roxana Ortega. Lucky Boy Books on Tape, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sekaran, Shanthi, Soneela Nankani, and Roxana Ortega. Lucky Boy Unabridged., Books on Tape, 2017.
Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.
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