We journey with him through his traumatic loss and separation from his family and hometown, marvel with him as a rural five-year old stays alive and relatively unharmed on the streets of Calcutta, and travel to the police station with a helpful teenager, then a large group housing center. 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. Lion by Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose.
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