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 | : | 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.
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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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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.I would like to give this 2-1/2 stars.Secret Daughter was an okay read. It was fairly innocuous. I thought that the author played safe with the subject matter she wrote about.The themes were:infanticide of girl babies in India;extreme poverty in India;mother/daughter relationships;adoption;interractial relationships...The author could have really pulled at my heartstrings. Instead, it was more like reading a Harlequin romance without the romance.This book would have made a great series. The
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
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
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
Secret Daughter is a novel about two couples on opposite sides of the world and the common thread is their daughter, The novel spans 20 years of both families from America to India, I love reading novels about different coultures and this is a great read and a real page turner, an interesting novel overall.
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 whenever
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