Immigration: San Francisco Author

Debut Novel Dept: But for the past nine weeks Gowda’s Secret Daughter, the story of a mixed-race California couple who adopt a baby girl in India, has been No. 2 in Canada, just behind The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest , and it has been near the top of the list for six months. With sales of about 6,000 copies a week and still climbing as the gift-giving season gets going, its surprise success is the juiciest mystery in Canadian publishing, according to Globe And Mail and published by HarperCollins in New York, the debut novel by San Francisco author Shilpi Somaya Gowda is barely findable in U.S. bookstores and currently ranks at No. 22,824 on Amazon.com’s list of best-selling books. Speaking from her busy family home in San Francisco, author Gowda happily admits the experience of being No. 2 in Canada is “a little bit surreal,” as mystifying to her as it is to her publishers. “But a royalty is a royalty,” she said, preparing to crisscross Canada on a recently planned publicity tour. “I still have to pinch myself to really believe it’s happening. It’s very gratifying, it’s very humbling.” As reported in the news.
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