A family trip to India turns into a grand adventure in this
contemporary novel about the Great Partition, from the award-winning
author of Saving Kabul Corner and Shooting Kabul.
A map, two train tickets, and a mission. These are things
twelve-year-old Maya and her big sister Zara have when they set off on
their own from Delhi to their grandmother's childhood home of Aminpur, a
small town in Northern India. Their goal is to find a chest of family
treasures that their grandmother's family left behind when they fled
from India to Pakistan during the Great Partition. But soon the sisters
become separated, and Maya is alone. Determined to find her
grandmother's lost chest, she continues her trip, enlisting help on the
way from an orphan boy named Jai.
Maya's grand adventure through India is as thrilling as it is warm: a
journey through her family's history becomes a real coming-of-age quest.