The orphan keeper : a novel, based on a true story
Record details
- ISBN: 9781629722245
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Physical Description:
418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain, [2016]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes author's note and study guide (page 411-418) |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | East Indian Americans Fiction Adoptees Identification Fiction Kidnapping victims Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
Available copies
- 11 of 12 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Scenic Regional. (Show preferred library)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Scenic Regional-Union | FIC WRI (Text) | 300655020+ | Fiction | Available | - |
Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | FIC WRI (Text) | 37884102663782 | Fiction | Checked out | 05/10/2024 |
Barry Lawrence - Monett Library | FIC WRI (Text) | 37884102663667 | Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Harrisonville | F WRI 2016 (Text) | 0002205024884 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | F WRI 2016 (Text) | 0002205025386 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Pleasant Hill | F WRI 2016 (Text) | 0002205024876 | Adult Fiction | Reshelving | - |
Dulany Memorial Library | FIC WRI (Text) | 35712001523720 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Marion County Library | F WRI (Text) | PPL66874 | Fiction | Available | - |
Poplar Bluff - Main Library | FIC WRIGHT (Text) | 38420101487201 | FICTION | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Holden | FIC Wri (Text) | 2204505161 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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The Orphan Keeper
Booklist
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Despite having been adopted from India, Taj Rowland is an excelling American teen: senior-class president, a varsity athlete, and popular with his classmates at his all-white Colorado high school. But when he's matched with an Indian family during a study-abroad program in London, Taj begins to remember pieces of his childhood, including his original name, Chellamuthu, and the family from which he was kidnapped and sold to an orphanage. Hoping to understand more about his identity, Taj immerses himself in Indian culture, starts an import-export company, and eventually marries an Indian woman, Priya, who turns out to have a surprising connection to his past. Armed with a map drawn from memory and accompanied by his business partner, Christopher Raj, Taj returns to India to search for his birth family. Wright (The Rent Collector, 2012) turns the story of the real-life Chellamuthu/Taj into a meditation on identity and the meaning of family, and a novel that is sure to be a book-club favorite.--Harmon, Lindsay Copyright 2016 Booklist