Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley

Author:Saroo Brierley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Canada

The first one—the suburb actually in Kolkata—was obviously not the one. But it made me wonder why no one I’d asked at Howrah Station had thought this was the place I was after. Maybe my pronunciation was wrong, or else they didn’t pause for long enough to listen to what I was saying.

The second and third places didn’t seem much more likely. I didn’t think they were far enough away from Howrah Station for the journey I’d been on, although I supposed it was possible I’d been on a circuitous route. The Orissan city was less than ten kilometers from the east coast, but I’d never seen the ocean until I flew over it to Australia—I’d once gone on a memorable trip to watch the sun set over a lake not far from my hometown in India, but the sight of the open sea below the plane astonished me. Could I have grown up so close to the coast but never known it? On the other hand, my friends thought that, based on the way I looked, I might have come from West Bengal, which was tucked in the eastern part of the country next to Bangladesh. That reminded me that when I was growing up in Hobart, Mum had told me some elderly Indians we met had thought it likely I came from the east. Could I be remembering the train journey wrong? Might the time and distance have been exaggerated in the mind of a frightened five- year- old?

Little seeds of doubt were being sown in my mind.

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