Secret Daughter: A Novel

· Harper Collins
4.6
28 reviews
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Somer’s life is everything sheimagined it would be—she’s newly married and has started her career as a physician in SanFrancisco—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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4.6
28 reviews
Josef Faber (SireJoe)
January 17, 2018
It's a good book overall. Keeps your interest and allows you to delve into Indian culture. About my only criticism would be how abruptly the characters revelations were. They felt a little unnatural. But apart from that, I really enjoyed the book. Worth the read.
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Connie Sterne
May 30, 2018
A really tug on the heart strings. This book will leave you wanting more. The beautiful writing and immigration of other languages is just wonderful. This feels like a real taste of India and felt like I was in the story the whole time!
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Israel Malik
February 4, 2016
This book and the other book by Shilpi, The Golden Son, are some of the best stories I read this year and I read a lot, five to six hours a day.
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About the author

Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her previous novels, Secret Daughter, The Golden Son, and The Shape of Family became international bestsellers, selling over two million copies worldwide, in over 30 languages. She holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain scholar. She lives in California with her husband and children.

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