Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Hardcover | Pages: 339 pages Rating: 3.98 | 67773 Users | 5378 Reviews
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| Title | : | Secret Daughter |
| Author | : | Shilpi Somaya Gowda |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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.
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| 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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Ratings: 3.98 From 67773 Users | 5378 ReviewsPiece Epithetical Books Secret Daughter
An infant daughter is left at a Mumbai orphanage because the family is too poor to raise her. An infertile Indian-American couple, both doctors, adopt her providing her with opportunities and affection. The chapters alternate between Ashas life in California and her brothers life in Mumbai. This is an often told story, siblings separated at birth, one to a life of privilege the other to a life of deprivation. This is an unremarkable theme told with unremarkable prose falling into cliché wheneverSecret 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,
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 Maladi
Wonderful book! If this is the author's first novel, I can't wait to read her second! I won the book through the First Reads giveaway here at Goodreads, and as soon as I did, I went to the authors website and read the first few pages in the preview! After just the first chapter, I was hooked! The story is centered around the 'secret daughter' Asha/Usha. She is born the 2nd daughter of Kavita, an Indian woman who lost her 1st daughter immediately after birth to infanticide. She is determined
An excellent read.I really enjoyed this well balanced novel - set in both India and America, it is narrated by several of the characters but never becomes confusing or dull. Many complex issues are covered, including adoption from third world countries into affluent Western families and the extreme poverty that can force a family to dispose of female offspring. I found the issues sensitively handled throughout and admit to crying towards the end. (The sure sign of a good book!).There are several
Once again I find myself in the minority regarding a book that is a best seller and has remained so for some time. I read somewhere in a review that the author did not think that the book was ready but she was encouraged by the publisher to proceed. I have to agree that I think it was not ready and that the writing is not that of a mature author. For me, many of the characters are so poorly developed and very shallow. Are we too believe that Somer who is highly educated would give so little
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