Secret Daughter: A Novel

ISBN: 0061928356

Author: Gowda, Shilpi Somaya

Condition: Used

Somers life is everything she imagined it would be-shes 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 daughters 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 Ashas 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.