Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Book Cover: "Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be - she's 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 daughter's 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 Asha's journey of self-discovery leads her back to India." This was a moving novel about choices. How does a mother give up a child? In Kavita's mind, there was no choice - India is a strange country filled with different customs and thoughts regarding women - especially girl babies. Her choice was to have the ch...