The orphan keeper
Subtitle: a novel, based on a true story
By: Camron Wright with Dave Pliler
Contributors: Pliler, David, author
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781629722245
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Kidnapping victims; East Indian Americans; Adoptees; Identification; Fiction
Description: Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the Indian orphanage that he is not an orphan, he has a mother who loves him. But he is told not to worry, he will soon be adopted by a loving family in America. Chellamuthu is suddenly surrounded by a foreign land and a foreign language. He can't tell people that he already has a family and becomes consumed by a single, impossible question: How do I get home? But after more than a decade, home becomes a much more complicated idea as the Indian boy eventually sheds his past and receives a new name: Taj Khyber Rowland. It isn't until Taj meets an Indian family who helps him rediscover his roots, as well as marrying Priya, his wife, who helps him unveil the secrets of his past, that he begins to discover the truth he has all but forgotten.
Notes: Includes author's note and study guide (page 411-418)