Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Secret Daughter / Shilpi Somaya Gowda / 358 pages / R. T. Reviewer's Choice Award 2012

The St. Lake City Dessert News says that "Secret Daughter is spellbinding...readers will have a hard time putting this novel down." ...Too True!  Featuring quick shifts between protagonists and cultures, Secret Daughter is a touching story of maternal love, self-determination, and the fragility and intricacy of marital love.  Kavita spirits her second born daughter to an orphanage in Mumbai to spare her from death - the fate of her first born daughter.  Somer is an American doctor married to an Indian doctor in San Francisco, California.  When she suffers two miscarriages and discovers that she will never be able to have children, she decides to adopt.  As fate would have it, she and Kris adopt Asha (Usha), Kavits's daughter.  Secret Daughter is an "awesome story of the unforeseen ways in which our choices and families affect our lives and the indelible power of love in all its forms."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."  Ghandi

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