Solimar Castro-Valdez crosses the US/Mexican border and arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. Amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity, motherhood becomes Soli's dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. Kavya Reddy is a mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house. When she can't get pregnant her desire for a child 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.
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