![]() ![]() Lion then introduces Saroo to us and takes us through all his precious childhood memories of India and his family. The book begins with a teaser prologue which gives it away – near the empty shell of his old home, he finds somebody who says he’ll take Saroo to his mother. Reading the blurb, it dealt with international adoption which is a topic of interest to me. There was a brown person on the cover, so I bought it knowing nothing about the book. This was, once again, a fully random Target pick. ![]() But is any of his family still there? Lion (previously A Long Way Home) by Saroo Brierley. ![]() Twenty-five years after he got lost, he came home again. Some didn’t believe him, others tried to take advantage of him, but none were able to find his family based on his five-year old recollections.Īs an adult with the help of Google Earth, he began an obsessive search to find his home town. Along the way, he told many people his story. Six emotional months later, he was adopted into an Australian family, the Brierleys. NOTE: Previously published under the title A Long Way Home.īorn into an impoverished but loving family in rural India, Saroo accompanied his brother to a nearby train station and got lost, ending up asleep on a train which took him to Calcutta. New American Library imprint, Penguin Random House, 2013. Finding The Nitch The B.Lion by Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose.Creative State of Mind A Blog by Tricia Drammeh.Using the Game Upwards with Young Children.New Video on Catherine of Aragon’s Childhood.We All Fall Down by Eric Walters- Book Review.I stayed up long into the night reading, unable to sleep until I knew whether he would find his birth family and who would still be alive. The style is comfortable and the story would fascinate anyone from ages 12 to 100. His desire to reunite with his birth family is heart-wrenching. What this tiny five-year-old child went through and how he survived it is unimaginable. He also realized his biological mother never found out why he disappeared.Įven though the book begins with Saroo in India as an adult, seemingly on the verge of finding his mother, the reader is held in shocked suspense throughout the entire narration. Saroo loved and appreciated his Australian parents but needed to know what happened to his other family. When Saroo was adult, Google maps became available and he began his search for his family. The memoir shows us his remarkable survival and eventual adoption by an Australian couple. Through a series of events, Saroo became lost in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Calcutta. It didn’t seem possible for things to get any worse, but they did. At five years old, Saroo was often responsible for taking care of his baby sister while the rest of the family scrounged essentials. They survived on the mother’s meager salary and what the children could beg or steal, severely malnourished and living with less than nothing. Saroo lived in India with his mother, baby sister, two brothers, and no father. Click here to buy A Long Way Home: A MemoirĪ Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley is the most amazing memoir I have ever read. ![]()
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