Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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| Title | : | Secret Daughter |
| Author | : | Shilpi Somaya Gowda |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 339 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 2010 by William Morrow (first published March 9th 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Contemporary. Parenting. Adoption. Book Club |
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Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children. The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter's life by giving her away. It is a decision that will haunt Kavita for the rest of her life, and cause a ripple effect that travels across the world and back again. Asha, adopted out of a Mumbai orphanage, is the child that binds the destinies of these two women. We follow both families, invisibly connected until Asha's journey of self-discovery leads her back to India. Compulsively readable and deeply touching, SECRET DAUGHTER is a story of the unforeseen ways in which our choices and families affect our lives, and the indelible power of love in all its many forms.Specify Books Supposing Secret Daughter
| Original Title: | Secret Daughter |
| ISBN: | 0061922315 (ISBN13: 9780061922312) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.shilpigowda.com/gowda-overview.htm |
| Characters: | Kavita Merchant, Jasu Merchant, Asha Thakkar, Krishnan (Kris) Thakkar, Somer (Whitman) Thakkar, Sarla Thakkar |
| Literary Awards: | Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Debut Author (2010), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011) |
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Loved this story of adoption, family, international travel and India!For read alikes, try these:The Leavers by Lisa KoThe Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa SeeA House for Happy Mothers by Amulya MaladiWatching so many Bollywood hits, I never saw India as I saw her through the eyes of the writer. She has the ability to take you into her world in such a captivating way; making you see all the negatives and the positives of her Homeland, and finally you have nothing but fall in love with this rich and contradicting country.Shilpi Gowda managed to discuss fatal subjects through her book in a smooth and endearing way. With her rich characters she goes through Poverty, Identity, Motherhood,
Meh. Not a bad story, but too superficially rendered for my taste.Kavita, a poor village woman, has just given birth to an infant daughter she names Usha. Terrified that her husband will murder the daughter because she's a girl, she journeys to Mumbai to place Usha in an orphanage. Meanwhile, Somer and Krishnan, a California couple struggling with infertility, decide to adopt an Indian orphan and end up with Usha. The book follows the twists and turns in these characters' lives as Kavita and her
Secret Daughter is a story about people and the paths their lives take. The characters are real,interesting, flawed, and you care about them. At the same time, Somaya Gowda manages to paint an extraordinarily rich portrait of modern India the sharp contrast between its poverty and wealth, its traditions and culture. I feel Ive experienced something of India although Ive never been there. Shilpi Somaya Gowda has written a captivating first novel about the meaning of family, motherhood, adoption,
Do you ever find a book unavoidable? Your mom is reading it, your friends are reading it, there's chatter about it on Facebook, and strangers on the bus are poring through it? Secret Daughter was such a book for me so when I saw it on a shelf in Buy the Book, my local used bookstore, I picked it up. The bookseller even chimed in with, "Great choice. It's a terrific book." My expectations were highslightly too high in the end.In Secret Daughter, author Shilpi Somaya Gowda juxtaposes the stories
Meh. Not a bad story, but too superficially rendered for my taste.Kavita, a poor village woman, has just given birth to an infant daughter she names Usha. Terrified that her husband will murder the daughter because she's a girl, she journeys to Mumbai to place Usha in an orphanage. Meanwhile, Somer and Krishnan, a California couple struggling with infertility, decide to adopt an Indian orphan and end up with Usha. The book follows the twists and turns in these characters' lives as Kavita and her
There's been a lot of buzz about this book but I found it to be an airport paperback tarted up as literature. In India a poor woman hands her daughter over to an orphanage rather then risk her being killed (as daughters aren't valued). In America, a physician and her India-born doctor husband decide to adopt a daughter (the abandoned girl) when attempts to conceive a child fail. The author bounces back and forth between the two mothers and while the tale of the Indian woman who overcomes
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