The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda tells the story of Mohan. He is the son of an Indian father and an Irish mother living in Ohio. He moves to India after his fiancée breaks off their engagement. While he is there, Mohan must come to terms with his past and the events that shaped him into the man he has become. Upon his return to America, he decides to help out by teaching at an orphanage in Mumbai. But he soon realizes that something about this situation doesn’t seem right.
Overview About “The Golden Son” by “Shilpi Somaya Gowda”
In The Golden Son, a young woman finds her once-promising life turned upside down. When she discovers that her beloved son is homeless and jobless. A decade earlier, Jess lived with her husband, Prakash, and two sons in Bangalore. Then, in one awful day, she lost everything: Her older son drowned; her beloved husband took his own life; and to add insult to injury, she discovered that he had deceived her about his financial worth—the business was going under while they were living lavishly. To start anew but stay close to their surviving son, Ravi—who could not bear being around reminders of what he’d lost—Jess and Ravi move back home to Jess’s father’s farm in rural India.
Reviews About “The Golden Son” by “Shilpi Somaya Gowda”
The characters in The Golden Son are as real as your next-door neighbor and all of them have a story to tell. So sit back, relax, and enjoy their journeys. – Los Angeles TimesShilpi Somaya Gowda’s writing is vivid, immediate, and full of surprising turns. With spare sentences that pull you in deep. It’s marvelous fiction about people who manage—however briefly—to rise above circumstance for a flicker of time. – Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News Riveting storytelling at its finest! If you like Barbara Kingsolver’s work you will love The Golden Son! – Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate.
About “Shilpi Somaya Gowda” the author of “The Golden Son”
A former writer for People magazine, Gowda has won several journalism awards. Her work has appeared in Self, Glamour, Salon, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. Her short stories have been published in anthologies including Best Women’s Travel Writing and Extraordinary Experiences. In her spare time, she’s a regular contributor to Cooking Light magazine. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.
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