Author: Saroo Brierley

I knew the movie based on this book was coming and I was happy that the library had it on their shelves. I finished it the night before we saw the film.

The book is a well-told story of the journey of an Australian man looking to find the family that was “lost” in India. It took 25 years but he finally found the town he lived in and, surprisingly, his mother lived only a short distance away from the original home. She said she never moved in case her son came back.

As a five-year old boy Saroo tagged along with his older brother as he went out in search of work to provide for the family. Saroo falls asleep in an empty train car and wakes up 16,000 miles away in Calcutta. For two months he barely manages to survive on the streets before being taken first to a detention centre, then an orphanage and finally to Australia where he was adopted by loving parent.

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