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 · Secret Daughter. Author: Shilpi Somaya Gowda. On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter’s life is to give her away. It is a decision that will haunt her and her husband for the rest of their lives, even.  · Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s debut novel, Secret Daughter, is about daughters. It's also about sons and husbands and wives and grandmothers, but the primary relationship she focuses on is that between mother and daughter.4/5. Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda. cries of their daughter taking her first few breaths in this world. Kavita knew, in that terrible moment, they would also be her last. The midwife pushed her gently back down. “Let him go, my child. Let him go now. It is done.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda is the award-winning, New York Times and internationally bestselling Canadian author of Secret Daughter, The Golden Son, and The Shape of Family. She lives in California with her family. She was born in and raised in Toronto, www.doorway.ru college, she spent a summer as a volunteer in an Indian orphanage, which seeded the idea for her first novel, Secret Daughter. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda One terrible night in , Kavita walks with her newborn daughter to an orphanage in Mumbai. Leaving her daughter at the orphanage is heartbreaking for her, but she knows if she doesn't, her husband will take the daughter and kill her, as he had a former girl born to them. Secret Daughter. Shilpi Somaya Gowda, HarperCollins. pp. ISBN 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.

Kavita see's a groupd of men on the street and they mae her feel self-concious and degraded. She realizes men do not care how they make women feel. Shilpi Somaya Gowda Right to Life, Liberty, and Personal Security Kavita gives birth to a baby girl She is discriminated for not. Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s debut novel, Secret Daughter, is about daughters. It's also about sons and husbands and wives and grandmothers, but the primary relationship she focuses on is that between mother and daughter. 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.