Full name: Secret Daughter: A Novel

Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Culture: India Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061928352

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. Similar books: The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda The Shape of Family by Shilpi Somaya Gowda The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair The Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux The Dowry Bride by Shobhan Bantwal The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan A River Sutra by Gita Mehta The Konkans by Tony D'Souza The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar