Jain, Bapsy. Lucky Everyday.(Brief article)(Book review)

* Jain, Bapsy. Lucky Everyday. Penguin. Jun. 2009. c.306p. ISBN 978-0-14-311535-9. pap. $14. F

This debut novel (originally published in India as The Blind Pilgrim) sneaks up on readers and pulls them in. We first meet Lucky Boyce when she is being driven into a prison, where she volunteers to teach yoga to male inmates. Her life had been turned upside down by divorce and the loss of her job, but Lucky is determined to survive. Forced to leave Bombay, she finds herself living with friends of her parents in New York and wanting to move on. Initially, Lucky volunteers at the prison in order to escape …