The Shape of family: a novel

By: MagillaDani. Audio book sample courtesy of HarperAudio. Haunted by memories from before Social Services came, she struggles with her new life. The Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world.

The Shape of Family A Novel (Book) : Gowda, Shilpi Somaya : The Olander family embodies the modern American Dream in a globalized world.

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— that the story truly begins. Gowda has looked at family before in her previous novels Secret Daughter and The Golden Son. The Shape of Family is an intimate portrayal of four individuals as they grapple with what it means to be a family, leaving a painful past and entering a hopeful future. — that the story truly begins.

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“The Shape of Family is a novel about race and culture, parents and siblings, marriage and love, but most of all, it’s about finding hope after darkness. More than anything, she wishes she could leave everything behind, go to Middle Earth, and save the Durins.

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Shilpi Somaya Gowda is a compassionate and wise storyteller who keeps us riveted from beginning to end.” —Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation In The Shape of Family, author Shilpi Somaya Gowda shows how sudden catastrophe can forever alter these closest of relationships.. When the novel opens in the late 2000s, the Olander family appears to be living the American dream in Los Altos. About The Shape of Family • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (March 17, 2020) “Deeply involving….Rings so true.” — Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family’s growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy.

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. It is a profoundly moving exploration of the ways we all seek belonging—in our families, in our communities and ultimately, within ourselves. The Shape of Family is a novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda. Yet in Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s engrossing new novel, “The Shape of Family,” the sky falls by page 30, and it is within the rubble — isn’t it always? Today Somaya Gowda is a internationally bestselling author with three titles to her name: "Secret Daughter,” “The Golden Son” and her latest, “The Shape of Family.” 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.