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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) |
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.Rating Appertaining To Books Secret Daughter
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This was a rich deep story of family...love and loss. This is a must read!This book really pulled me in. I had the good fortune of being able to read most of it on a long plane ride, so I didn't have to put it down. I liked the two parallel stories and how they were interwoven. To me, the only obvious flaw was that the character of the American mother seemed a bit pat and superficial. The idea of looking through the eyes of an American woman married to a man who immigrated to the US from India as a young adult was interesting, but the perspective lacked the subtlety
Not a bad book but, at one point, when changing the POV yet again, it felt like it was lurching along, perhaps because the story jumped back and forth across the world combined with some large jumps in time. I think the author knew where she wanted to go but the long timeline and the multiple interior stories she wanted to tell were too much for the book. Initially, there was little opportunity to become engaged with the characters as the time jumps meant that almost every time you read their
This is a story that beautifully and creatively tackles many controversial issues. Between Somer and Krishnan, we have an interracial marriage. (Issue one) Krishnan, an Indian man and Somer, a caucasian woman, think nothing of the difference in their cultures until a trip to India shows Somer the world from which Krishnan comes from. She does a double take and wonders how well she really knows her husband. Issue two: motherhood. Somer wants to have a baby so bad but her body does not agree with
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,
I really like books set in India as I find their culture fascinating. I enjoyed the last part of the book the most as it's mainly set in India. Moving story of adoption and learning who your family is.
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
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