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William Morrow
February 2016
On Sale: January 26, 2016
Featuring: Anil; Leena
400 pages
ISBN: 0062391453
EAN: 9780062391452
Kindle: B00X3N8SIM
Hardcover / e-Book
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The New York Times and #1 internationally
bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with
an unforgettable story of family, responsibility, love,
honor, tradition, and identity, in which two childhood
friends—a young doctor and a newly married bride—must
balance the expectations of their culture and their families
with the desires of their own hearts. The first of his
family to go to college, Anil Patel, the golden son, carries
the weight of tradition and his family’s expectations when
he leaves his tiny Indian village to begin a medical
residency in Dallas, Texas, at one of the busiest and most
competitive hospitals in America. When his father dies, Anil
becomes the de facto head of the Patel household and
inherits the mantle of arbiter for all of the village’s
disputes. But he is uneasy with the custom, uncertain that
he has the wisdom and courage demonstrated by his father and
grandfather. His doubts are compounded by the difficulties
he discovers in adjusting to a new culture and a new job,
challenges that will shake his confidence in himself and his
abilities. Back home in India, Anil’s closest
childhood friend, Leena, struggles to adapt to her demanding
new husband and relatives. Arranged by her parents, the
marriage shatters Leena’s romantic hopes, and eventually
forces her to make a desperate choice that will hold drastic
repercussions for herself and her family. Though Anil and
Leena struggle to come to terms with their identities
thousands of miles apart, their lives eventually intersect
once more—changing them both and the people they love
forever. Tender and bittersweet, The Golden
Son illuminates the ambivalence of people caught
between past and present, tradition and modernity, duty and
choice; the push and pull of living in two cultures, and the
painful decisions we must make to find our true selves.
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