Shilpi somaya gowda biography of rory anderson

Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Her parents moved to Canada from Mumbai, India. She currently lives in California. Toronto: HarperAvenue, O G65 Anil is the cherished son of a large family in rural India. As the eldest boy, he is expected to inherit the role of leader of his clan and arbiter of its disputes, dispensing wisdom and good advice.

Leena is his closest companion, a fiercely brave girl who loves nothing more than the wild terrain they inhabit and her close-knit family. As childhood friends, they are inseparable—but as adulthood approaches, they grow apart.

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Anil is the first person in his family to leave India, the first to attend college, the first to become a doctor. Though his work in a gritty urban hospital is grueling, Anil is determined to carve out his own life in America. As the two old friends discover each other again, they must also weigh the choice between responsibility and freedom, and between loyalty and love.

Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple.

For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor irritants, arguments between parents and children, older and younger siblings. But one Saturday night, the twelve-year-old son is arrested.