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Secret Daughter Trade size paperback - 2011
by Gowda, Shilpi Somaya
- Used
- Paperback
Reminiscent of the Academy Award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," Gowda's stunning debut explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, and belonging.
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- Title Secret Daughter
- Author Gowda, Shilpi Somaya
- Binding Trade Size Paperback
- Edition 5th Printing
- Condition Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow, New York, NY
- Date 2011
- Features Glossary
- Bookseller's Inventory # w5948
- ISBN 9780061928352 / 0061928356
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Adopted children, Mothers
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
Somer's life is everything sheimagined it would be--she'snewly married and has startedher career as a physician in SanFrancisco--until she makes the devastatingdiscovery she never will beable to have children.
The same year in India, a poormother makes the heartbreakingchoice to save her newborn daughter'slife by giving her away. It is adecision that will haunt Kavita forthe rest of her life, and cause aripple effect that travels across theworld and back again.
Asha, adopted out of a Mumbaiorphanage, is the child that bindsthe destinies of these two women. Wefollow both families, invisibly connecteduntil Asha's journey of self-discoveryleads her back to India.
Compulsively readable anddeeply touching, Secret Daughter isa story of the unforeseen ways inwhich our choices and families affectour lives, and the indelible power oflove in all its many forms.
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Citations
- Romantic Times, 04/01/2011, Page 46