Key Selling Points A young Burmese-American man unearths a secret family history after joining the pro-democracy movement in Burma on a trip in 1988. The novel explores a young man's curiosity for a homeland he never knew and how his first visit there both traumatized him and helped him discover himself. Double Karma provides a well-researched, in-depth account of Burmese history, which is not widely known in North America. Daniel Gawthrop lived and worked in Myanmar (Burma) in 2013-14, is married to native of Karen State in Burma, and lived and worked in Bangkok from 2000-2003. The author wrote a master's thesis on Burmese independent media during the junta years and has followed Burmese affairs for several decades. He also worked for CBC Radio and wrote for the Vancouver Sun. Daniel Gawthrop won a Western Magazine Award for Best Personality Profile and his memoir The Rice Queen Diaries was shortlisted for Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year and an Independent Publishers Award. Daniel Gawthrop began the first efforts in Vancouver for gay men to play hockey, ultimately forming (with a few others) the Cutting Edges, a gay men's hockey club that raises money for the Dr.

Peter AIDS Foundation and other causes.