Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran’s forthcoming novel, Lucky Boy, has been praised as “richly layered” and “superbly crafted”. Due for release in January 2017, the novel tells the story of a young undocumented Mexican woman who finds her fate unexpectedly entwined with that of a Berkeley couple. Her first novel, The Prayer Room, came out in 2009. Sekaran now lives in Berkeley and teaches writing at California College of the Arts.