Books by Gita Audhya
In All those tears we can’t see it was difficult and traumatic for Samantha (The immigrant in my book) to leave everything behind and start a new life. Samantha eventually manages to achieve the American Dream. Shimonti believes in her mind if one accepts this country’s principles and customs that is the same as denying the traditions and values of their homeland — a conflict which becomes only too apparent as Samantha and Amit embark upon the adventure of having a child of their own.
The silver lining in this book is when Samantha thought she should embrace and accept Brandon as her son-in-law, who was Christian, realizing her daughter’s happiness should come first, before her own happiness, but would she? The messages brought forth about the beauty of love and the evil of rape came across through the pages of my book.
About the Book
This book is written from my own personal experience. When I immigrated to America a long time ago I was very fearful because I did not know that the people of America would accept me but to my surprise, they did warm-heartedly. When I started a new life in my new adopted land the language, culture, traditions, morals, beliefs, and everyday way
of life were totally foreign to me. To assimilate into this new country while still retaining my culture and beliefs was even harder. I had clashes with my children occasionally and then I learned to adjust to their views. I endured lots of hardship in my life but I knew that all opportunities on the horizon will bring good life for me and my family ultimately.
Change is imminent- whether we like it or not. Samantha in my book found out the hard way and she paid a high price for that. She was heartbroken to see that her beloved country had gone through a dramatic change. Changes were at every level in India. She did not want to move forward. When a tragedy struck her it opened her eyes to this change and prepared her to accept her son-in-law who was Christian but would she?
All those tears we can’t see address many issues from the achievement of the American Dream by an immigrant woman who lacked money and opportunity in India to the physical assault of her daughter then accepting changes with tragic circumstances. This book is a literary fiction recognized by C.S. Holmes from Indiereaders.com.
Book Summary for In Pursuit of Love, spirituality, and happiness:
The culture of Hawaii, the spirituality of India, lots of romance and love, corporate corruption, a father’s greed, and melancholy unhappiness made In Pursuit of Love, Spirituality, and Happiness multi-dimensional. The book is about higher feelings.
The story follows an ordinary young American man born into enormous wealth who does not know the real world. Then Jonathan meets Oliana, a beautiful Hawaiian girl, while on vacation and everything changes. Jonathan learns about nature and religion, faith and trust, power and helplessness, and (most importantly) love. His own ethical values and Oliana’s vast supportive love prepare him to confront his evil father’s greed. It tells the story of a young man trying to make his separate way from his corrupt father. He went to India to cleanse his soul as many Western people take the same path to pursue spiritual enlightenment.
The readers will witness his tormented heart racked by helplessness and see him gradually mature to become an individual own person, not controlled by the desires and rules of others as all of us make this journey to find who we are and who we are supposed to be.
The main character of the story is portrayed as a symbol of the ethical and moral struggles of human life. It displays the differences and similarities in Religion, Business & Lifestyle from India to the USA to Hawaii; an authentic link and a love story between Oliana, a Hawaiian beauty, and Jonathan, an American, from a rich, powerful, political, glamorous and conglomerate family. The Novel captures the essence of true love between two people, their conflicts and astonishing & amazing romances, and the relentless pull of day-to-day problems living in a corrupt situation and facing reality. Jonathan and Oliana came from very opposite backgrounds and they seek deeper meaning of life and happiness through love as their basic fulfillment.
My Personal Hero
I have to tell a little story about my 1st book’s front cover art. After I finished my book 1st edition of In Pursuit of Love, Spirituality and Happiness I was looking for a cover art to carry out the theme of my book. As you can imagine it was very frustrating and time–consuming as I could not locate any match. Finally, I got lucky but there was a problem – I found Mr. Kane’s painting “Pele, the Volcano Goddess” which will perfectly express the theme of my book. It was of course copyright protected. Imagine this – I was just a first–time author approaching a well-known famous artist, and a renaissance man to permit me to use his well famous painting on my book cover! I didn’t think he would even bother to answer my email but to my surprise, I discovered I was wrong. Mr. Kane, being a most kind and generous person, wanted to read my book so that he could compare it with the Hawaiian spirituality represented in my book. He was absolutely happy about the theme, and I was in tears thinking about his generosity. He granted me the permission to use it as a cover art. I promised him after writing the book I would send him a copy. But after writing the 1st edition of that book I was not delighted with the outcome and a few years later when I wrote the 2nd edition with my satisfaction, unfortunately he passed away. So I couldn’t deliver it to him personally. I feel very guilty ever since. He is a personal hero to me, and I will always remember him in my heart. In my opinion he ought to be a National Hero.
Another thing I discovered when I attended the American Library Association’s Expo last year to represent my book “In Pursuit of Love, Spirituality and Happiness “, hardly anybody knew his name and with my surprise they all knew many things about India. It bothered me and I was very sad. Such a hero who served in the navy, painted many world famous pictures, author of many books, and a renaissance man of Hawaiian culture – he is not remembered nationally.