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1. • • Summary On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl but faces a heartbreaking choice. In a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her daughter's life is to give her away.
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   What is Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda about?

   • Secret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian, one American—and the child that binds them together.

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   • Secret Daughter received much critical praise for its nuanced and realistic portrayal of Indian culture. Its themes include reconciliation, self-discovery and identity formation, motherhood, and social inequality. Due to its many rich themes, Secret Daughter remains highly popular with book clubs.

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   Who created Secret Daughter?

   • Godwa formed the idea for Secret Daughter while volunteering at an Indian orphanage as an undergraduate. Secret Daughter received much critical praise for its nuanced and realistic portrayal of Indian culture. Its themes include reconciliation, self-discovery and identity formation, motherhood, and social inequality.

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   • Its themes include reconciliation, self-discovery and identity formation, motherhood, and social inequality. Due to its many rich themes, Secret Daughter remains highly popular with book clubs. Set in 1985, the first scene is of a baby being born in an impoverished Indian village.

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   Is Secret Daughter a good mother's Day gift?

   • This novel travels far in the world, and deep into the human heart." “ Gowda has adroitly tackled motherhood and India in her enchanting debut novel Secret Daughter. ... It’s heart-wrenching at times, but all in all, an engrossing debut novel and a perfect Mother’s Day gift.”

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   Secret Daughter (2010) is the debut novel of Canadian-Indian author Shilpi Somaya Gowda. Spanning twenty years, it follows two families who are mysteriously connected by an adopted daughter. A New York Times Bestseller, the novel has been translated into more than thirty languages and has sold more than a million copies.

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   Mar 9, 2010 · SECRET DAUGHTER tells two heartbreaking stories, worlds apart but inseparably linked. The first is about infertility in North American woman and the extreme lengths that some hopeful mothers- and fathers-to-be will take to achieve the elusive goal of parenthood.

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   Summary. On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl but faces a heartbreaking choice. In a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her daughter's life is to give her away.

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   Chapter 1 Summary: “Dawn of Mourning: Dahanu, India—1984, Kavita” The novel opens with Kavita , a pregnant woman in rural India, about to give birth. Alone as night begins to fall, Kavita lies on a mat on the mud floor of her village’s birthing hut.

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   "Gowda's flair for detail is evident in the way she describes the clothes, food, the streets and their smells of this land teeming with people and poverty. This story about motherhood, loss, family and forgiveness is authentic in every way. ... The prose is so achingly touching, it draws the reader in with every description and emotion of the chara...

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   "Gowda has masterfully portrayed two families … linked by a powerful, painful tie that complicates their lives …. A thought-provoking examination of the challenges of being a woman in America and in India—and in the psychological spaces in between." — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of Mistress of Spices "A deeply moving and timeless story of an...

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   Amnesty International Book Club Selection (2015)

   IndieNEXT Great Read, April 2010 (American Booksellers' Association)

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   Secret Daughter. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.

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   Nov 6, 2012 · Secret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian, one American—and the child that binds them together.