Based on a remarkable true story
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. Taj is determined to return to India and begin the quest to
find his birth family. But is it too late? Is it possible that his birth
mother is still looking for him? And which family does he belong to now?
From the best-selling author of The Rent Collector, this is a deeply
moving and gripping journey about discovering one's self and the
unbreakable family bonds that connect us forever.
