- 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.