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Lucky Boy (novel) her sweeping, deep and strikingly compassionate second novel, "Lucky Boy," Shanthi Sekaran weaves these two elemental narratives with emotionally arresting aplomb." A television series based on "Lucky Boy" is being developed by UnbelEVAble Entertainment, starring Eva Longoria and David Schulner. Lucky Boy (novel) Lucky Boy is a 2017 novel written by Shanthi Sekaran and her second book. Soli, an eighteen-year-old woman, enters the United States illegally from Mexico and an Indian American 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". Steph Cha