16 Quotes by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

At some point, the family you create is more important than the one you were born into.

The real world is all an illusion. It’s all in how you see it.

I love your smile, that smile. Don’t cover it up. It’s the best part of you.” The.

Sometimes she wishes she could return to the naive happiness of their life. But mostly, she aches to go forward, to a place her body doesn’t seem willing to take her.

Somer cannot give voice to her real fears. That she will lose Asha, even a little bit. That the bond she’s worked so hard to build will be tainted by this ghost. This, after all, is the outcome she has tried to avoid all along – why she hasn’t wanted to go back to India, why she’s never encouraged Asha’s questions about the adoption. It is at the core of almost every decision she has made since Asha came into their lives.

Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn’t fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

Then she rushes to pick up Asha from school, where she is known only as “Asha’s mom” by the other mothers, who seem to all spend a lot of time together. Somer has no time for the PTA and bake sales. She has no time for herself. Her profession no longer defines her, but neither does being a mother. Both are pieces of her, and yet they don’t seem to add up to a whole.