For the second week in a row, I find myself plugging through a 450ish page recent novel. Like Pachinko from last week, this novel is touching and true, serious and complex, and rewarding throughout. Lucky Boy is the story of two different women barreling toward a shared destiny. Soli is a Mexican woman who crosses into the US for a chance at a new life. Along the way through both shared love and/or sexual violence, she finds herself pregnant. Despite the very limited good will of the […]