The golden son : a novel /
Shilpi Somaya Gowda.
- 1st ed.
- Toronto, ON : HarperAvenue, c2015.
- 393 p. ; 24 cm.
From the beloved author of "Secret Daughter" comes a moving new novel of a young man at the crossroads of life. Anil is the first person in his family to leave India, the first to attend college, the first to become a doctor. Half a world away in Dallas, Texas, he is caught up in his new life, experiencing all the freedoms and temptations of American culture: he tastes alcohol for the first time, falls in love, and learns firsthand abut his adopted country's alluring, dangerous contradictions.