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Bezig met laden... Lucky Boydoor Shanthi Sekaran
  
Bezig met laden...
 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  LiteraryGadd | Jan 16, 2023 |   I got to page 54 (toward the end of chapter 5) and thought the writing was good, but was not gripped enough by it to want to finish it right now--will pass this on to those on the waiting list at my library, and maybe come back to it later. (  ) reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 | She is mistreated in many ways, but finds, once she settles with her cousin in Berkeley, CA, that she is pregnant. She has a job as a housekeeper/nanny and is doing well, but not legally. She has her baby boy and is doing well, until it is found that she is not legal. Ignacio, her baby boy, is taken from her and she is put into jail as a nonlegal. That is when Ignacio is put into a foster home with Rishi & Kavya Reddy. They grow to love him and want to adopt him. Well-written and sad for both sides of this child's "parents". (  ) JReynolds1959 | Feb 19, 2021 |  ) Betsy_Crumley | Jan 28, 2021 | It's hard to say much about this book without feeling like I'm reducing it to something pat or easy. It's also almost impossible to say anything concrete about the story without giving spoilers, because the pacing at the beginning is so deliberate: a lot of story time is devoted to Soli's crossing the border and her 9 months of pregnancy; then time collapses a little bit and two years goes by quickly, with jumps of months at a time. Sekaran does a really good job of giving the reader differing immigrant experiences, both Soli's individual experience and that of the Latinx housekeepers that work for Silvia, and Kavya's as an Indian-American whose parents put a lot of pressure on her to be a "perfect" girl. There are no easy answers. Both Soli and Kavya are sympathetic, which makes for heartbreaking reading, because someone's going to get hurt regardless. A couple of times, I wondered if events panned out a certain way because the author just didn't know which direction to take the story, especially at the end. But while it's not a perfect book, there's certainly much fodder for discussion. (  ) bell7 | Oct 15, 2019 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.98)
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Lucky Boy takes the most unbiased look at two sides I have ever seen and leaves you so unbearably conflicted. It will haunt you long after you finish. I was made to question my stance on immigration, on the foster care system, on the prison system, EVERYTHING. I just wanted a happy ending but in the current state of affairs, there are no clean lines. I can’t recommend this book more, it brought to attention things that you can become callous to when you see the headlines every day, or the stories that are relegated to the back pages and small print. I talk about sides, but can you really take a side? It’s not about sides, it’s about humanity.
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