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After taking a short break for the summer, I am excited to announce our next SITS book club pick. It is a book I LOVED and can’t wait to share with you.
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda is a gem of a book. (It was in my top ten list for 2010.) In a small Indian village, a woman gives birth to a daughter. Before her husband can kill the daughter, as he did to her older sister, the woman, Kavita, takes the baby to an orphanage in Mumbai. She painfully gives up the baby and goes home to her village.
At the same time, a doctor in San Francisco cannot get pregnant. Her husband is Indian and his mother knows of the same orphanage in Mumbai. They adopt that baby.
The book weaves back and forth from San Francisco to India with the stories of both families. Towards the end of the book, their stories intersect.
Book club details:
- When: Thursday, September 22nd
- Time: 8-9:00 pm CST
- Where: Twitter, Hashtag #SITSBooks
The author Shilpi Somaya Gowda will be joining us. You can follow her on Twtter at @shilpigowda.
Giveaway
William Morrow Paperbacks, the publisher of Secret Daughter, is giving away 25 copies of the book to lucky SITS/Great Thoughts winners. To win a copy, please leave a comment on this post and on my blog here. Be sure to leave your e-mail address so we have a way to contact you!
You’re going to love this book!
And stay tuned for next week when we’ll be announcing the book club picks for the remainder of the year. We’ve got a very exciting line up planned.
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This sounds like a wonderful book, even if it isn’t pink…I would love to win one…
I started reading this last night. So far, I love it. I like that it addresses adoption and miscarriage. I think miscarriage isn’t addressed enough in our culture. It is such a loss and people are unable to discuss their grief of a lost child openly.
I’ve been away from SITS from a while, and am regretting it! What a great idea! This book looks so good, I can’t wait to read it. I usually get stuck in a book rut, reading all the same author or genre. The SITS book club is the perfect way for me to explore what’s out there! And who could turn down a chance for a free book, and an opportunity to actually talk to the author? Thanks!
It’s awesome!!! I’d love to discuss this w/a group of Indian Adoptees like me! 🙂
This sounds like a great book!
Awesome all of my cousins are starting a book club blog and after seeing this we’ve decided to add it as our second book!
I love intercountry adoption stories, since we adopted internationally.
Wow this sounds like a really heartfelt book. I can see tears being held back unsuccessfully
I picked this book up after our last twitter book club and read it in 5 days, no small feat for a busy, busy mom. It was phenomenal. My sister and I always compare books that are more serious in nature to books with a little “cheesyiness” in them, and Secret Daughter was completely void of any cheese. One of my top 3 of the year for sure. I am really looking forward to chatting with the author and my other favorite book clubbers about it!
This sounds like a great read! Count me in!
tasha.bookobsessed[at]hotmail[dot]com
It sounds good.
Sounds like a great book!
It looks interesting! Can’t wait to read!
Posted on other blog as well. I would love to read this!
This book looks really good. I am looking for a new book to read and this one would be great.
I’d love to win!
I really want to read this book. Thanks!
Sounds like a wonderful book!!
This looks like such an interesting book, I’d love to read it!
chipper101(at)hotmail(dot)com
i commented here and there, i love to read!
it sounds like a great plot and i hope i win
This sounds like a great book. Thanks for the giveaway!
eswright18 at gmail dot com
Sounds like a good book
This sounds great, I am adopted and love to read books about adoption (though this is perhaps the darker side of it all) thanks for the opportunity.
I’ve heard such great things about this book. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’ve heard such great things about this book. Thanks for the giveaway!
looks so interesting
I have been out of the loop all summer, and have missed the SITS Book Club! Looking forward to reading Secret Daughter!
I would like to read this work!
This daughter REALLY wants to win!
I am always looking for a great summer read to share with my sister, thanks for the chance!
I think this book would be interesting because of the Indian culture revealed in it.
This sound like the perfect summer read
I would LOVE to win this giveaway! I’m a big fan of reading and buy about every book under the sun. I haven’t actually read this one yet! So excited for the recommendation and even more excited at the idea of possibly winning it!
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I have a probably vain hope that one day, throughout all the world, females will be seen as having as much value as males…to males. This book sounds like a captivating read, thanks for the chance to win it.
i would love to win this book!
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What an amazing story, I love to read books written by women they give another dimension to a book.
This sounds like a great book.
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thanks-this book sounds wonderful
Would love to win. Thanks!
caryn9802 at yahoo dot com
I can’t wait to read this book. It sounds really good.
WANNA READ THAT look so good