Thursday, March 18, 7:00 p.m.

The Secret Daughter  BUY NOW

Stanford University - Bldg. 200, Room 303 (History Corner at Serra Street and Lomita Mall)

Moving between two worlds and two families in California and India, Gowda poignantly explores issues of culture, belonging, and the role of women in her powerful debut novel.

Gowda has masterfully portayed two families . . . linked by a powerful, painful tie that complicates their lives. . . . A thought-provoking examination of the challenges of being a woman in America and in India–and in the psychological spaces in between." –Chitra Divakaruni, author of Palace of Illusions

Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto to parents who migrated there from Mumbai. She holds an MBA from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

This event is presented by SACHI, The Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India and The Center for South Asia at Stanford University 

For reservations contact info@sachi.org or call 650-918-6335.

SECRET DAUGHTER just debuted at #4 on the Canadian Bestseller List, only 3 days after its launch.  Read the story in the Globe & Mail, the NY Times of the North: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/bestsellers/