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Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale 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.
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- Stephanie
- 06-08-11
A Must Read
A engaging and fascinating story of one American family, their adopted daughter from India, her paternal Indian family, and their eventual acceptance of one another and treasured peaceful coexistence. I highly recommend this book.
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- CarolynneRHarris
- 05-02-11
A Story of Many Truths
One of the most interesting and enjoyable books I have read or listened to this year including Cuttting for Stone. The author brought hope and happiness to me, I could relate to each character. The narrator was perfect.
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- Linda
- 03-13-14
I call this a Publishers Book
The story is engaging but poorly written. The writing is mixed with some parts well written and some poorly written, much of it maudlin. When I read a book like this I think a new author has a good idea but gets a publisher that puts a team of mediocre writers on it to get it out the door. Overall amateurish. Toward the end, I just started skipping over sections trying to miss the poorly written stuff. Much of the ending is just so much mush.
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- Holly Miller
- 02-16-12
Just OK
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
The book was entertaining, but not something I would recommend to an avid reader. It was just OK.
If you’ve listened to books by Shilpi Somaya Gowda before, how does this one compare?
Shilpi is a good reader and her Indian accents added to the story.
Any additional comments?
I would have liked for the characters to have been developed a little better. I felt like the story was being
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- Baker
- 09-05-11
Good listen, well read
For a first try, a good book. A bit slow at first, however, halfway through, it got better. The narrator was very good and made the story authentic.
If you enjoyed this book, I HIGHLY recommend A fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.
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- Barbara
- 01-13-14
Motherhood and family are deeper than blood
Where does Secret Daughter rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This is a captivating book which makes you wish the drive to work was longer.
Have you listened to any of Soneela Nankani’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
This is the first book I have listened to read by Soneela Nankani. Her inflection and intonation, combined with the vernacular of the book allowed the listener to envision the scene and gain insight to the characters personality.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Nothing is as simple as it first seems, especially in India, especially when it involves family.
Any additional comments?
This book made me think of my relationship with my own mother who is deceased. I appreciate her all that much more.
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- Lisa
- 03-10-12
good easy listening
Where does Secret Daughter rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
An enjoyable story I enjoyed listening to all of the different characters perspective on the same story. The reader was wonderful to listen to.
Have you listened to any of Soneela Nankani’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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Who was the most memorable character of Secret Daughter and why?
The daughter because she was able to see both sides of the cultural clash between the characters
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- Alison
- 08-22-14
Great read for a book club!
Color me impressed. I went in with low expectations because this was a first-time author, but I was quickly hooked. The writing was solid, the story well-told and the characters well-developed. There were a couple chapters about 3/4 of the way through when I felt like I'd been duped and it was a book with an agenda (trying to help adopted children stop asking questions about their birth families), but that was fleeting and then quickly dismissed. This was engaging and a fast listen, yet I found myself teary-eyed at the end, which means I cared about the characters. If all debuts could be this solid, we'd be spoiled. I plan to recommend this to my book club, because it's great fodder for discussion.
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- BumbleBee 456
- 02-17-14
the author revises the planet
The story is one of family relationships, specifically mother-daughter relationships. But she is too heavy-handed in her focus, using a sweeper brush instead of a fine point. She also writes NorCal culture in the 1990s as if no Indian people or subculture exists - this Indian adoptee has never eaten Indian food? Really? Or been to Fremont? Or heard of waxing? My uncle lived in Menlo Park from 1985 - 2003, and I can tell you this reeks of invention.
The author then pretends you can see through the air of Bangalore all the way to the sea. In 2004. And that you can take taxis there and not hit bad traffic.
These patent fabrications reinforce the feeling of artificiality that pervades the women's relationships with one another as well. It was a nice try, but really suffered from the forced details she made up trying to make the story more dramatic. It did not feel like it could be true, and the people didn't feel like they could be true, so when the latest emotional tragedy struck I found it hard to be moved.
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- Leann
- 02-05-12
An entertaining story of two worlds.
What made the experience of listening to Secret Daughter the most enjoyable?
The story was well written. I became engaged with the characters right away.
The performance was great and it was a pleasure to listen to.
What did you like best about this story?
I enjoyed learning a little bit more about Indian culture. This is not a culture that I am very familiar with so I found it very interesting.
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In Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama takes listeners back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amid the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own.
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Sisterhood Many Forms
- By Rose Fonseca on 10-14-23
By: Gail Tsukiyama
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A Great Country
- A Novel
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple.
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The Golden Son
- A Novel
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The first of his family to go to college, Anil Patel, the golden son, carries the weight of tradition and his family's expectations when he leaves his tiny Indian village to begin a medical residency in Dallas, Texas, at one of the busiest and most competitive hospitals in America. When his father dies, Anil becomes the de facto head of the Patel household and inherits the mantle of arbiter for all of the village's disputes.
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4-Stars, But I'm Rounding Up...
- By Gillian on 01-28-16
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The Storyteller's Secret
- A Novel
- By: Sejal Badani
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi - her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant - who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.
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Nope
- By rmp on 11-06-20
By: Sejal Badani
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The Daughters of Madurai
- A Novel
- By: Rajasree Variyar
- Narrated by: Vaishnavi Suryaprakash
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son—or worse, if she bears daughters. They let her keep her first baby girl, but the rest are taken away as soon as they are born and murdered. But Janani can’t forget the daughters she was never allowed to love.
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Wow!
- By Rahamat on 11-03-23
By: Rajasree Variyar
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The Shape of Family
- A Novel
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio, Vikas Adam
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Olander family embodies the modern American Dream in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and make a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children: headstrong teenager Karina and young son Prem, the light of their home. But love and prosperity cannot protect them from sudden, unspeakable tragedy.
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Beautifully written; horrendous delivery
- By Nivasha on 03-25-20
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Women of the Silk
- A Novel
- By: Gail Tsukiyama
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama takes listeners back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amid the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own.
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Sisterhood Many Forms
- By Rose Fonseca on 10-14-23
By: Gail Tsukiyama
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A Great Country
- A Novel
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple.
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The Orphan Keeper
- By: Camron Wright
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life - and his destiny - is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America.
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5 Star Worthy
- By Kari on 10-26-16
By: Camron Wright
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Trail of Broken Wings
- By: Sejal Badani
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.
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Just Annoying
- By karen on 09-06-15
By: Sejal Badani
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The Woman in the White Kimono
- A Novel
- By: Ana Johns
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man - an American sailor, a gaijin - and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.
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DO NOT LISTEN! Decent story, HORRIBLE narration!!!
- By David Meier on 05-07-20
By: Ana Johns
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When the Moon Is Low
- A Novel
- By: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness.
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Good story. Poor ending
- By Janine on 01-14-22
By: Nadia Hashimi
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In the Country
- Stories
- By: Mia Alvar
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Don Castro
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning back again.
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My introduction to Filipino literature and culture
- By Amazon Customer on 03-28-16
By: Mia Alvar
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Peony in Love
- A Novel
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage.
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Eloquently written and read
- By D on 07-21-07
By: Lisa See