In a village in India, a young mother named Kavita gives birth to a girl and, knowing that her husband will not accept a daughter, secretly gives the baby away to an orphanage in Mumbai. Across the world in San Francisco, Somer, a doctor who has been unable to have a child, and her husband Krishnan, who was born in India, adopt a baby they name Asha. As Asha grows up, she looks for her origins and eventually travels to India. Shilpi Somaya Gowda alternates between the two families and the two countries.
It is a fit for readers of family dramas who want an emotional story about adoption, identity, and the cost of choices. Book clubs often use it for discussion of how mothers define love.
Inward-looking; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
