Toronto born and raised novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling novel about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India. SECRET DAUGHTER explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity and love as witnessed through the lives of two families, one Indian, one American and the child that indelibly connects them.

SECRET DAUGHTER explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity and love as witnessed through the lives of two families, one Indian, one American and the child that indelibly connects them. Toronto born and raised novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling novel about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.