A Long Way Home by Reilly Kazawic https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w Reilly Kazawic en-us 2017-11-09 15:19:58 UTC 2025-12-23 17:29:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Book Cover rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206030255 2017-11-12 20:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206030255 The Author, Saroo Brierley rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206030534 2017-11-12 20:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206030534 rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206031287 The memoir A Long Way Home is about a boy who gets lost and can't find his way home. He ends up getting adopted from a family in a different country. He goes on a long journey to find his hometown and reunite with his birth family.]]> 2017-11-12 20:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206031287 rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206031656 The book takes place both in India and Australia. The time period is 2013 but it has flashbacks to as early as 1981 to 2012.]]> 2017-11-12 20:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206031656 Character List rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206032316
  • Saroo Brierley: The main Character
  • Kamla: Saroo's birth Mother
  • Sue Brierley: Saroo's adoptive Mother
  • John Brierley: Saroo's adoptive Father
  • Kallu: Saroo's older Brother
  • Guddu: Saroo's older Brother
  • Shekila: Saroo's younger Sister
  • Mantosh: Saroo's adoptive Brother
  • Saroj Sood: The woman that helped Saroo get adopted
    • ]]>     2017-11-12 20:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206032316     Motivation for journey rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206034000 Saroo had been living in Tasmania for over a quarter of a century and he felt he owed it to himself to find where he was really from. He wanted to find his mother and reunite with his family. ]]> 2017-11-12 20:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206034000 "While I don't have any urge to convert that into religious belief, I feel strongly that from my being a little lost boy with no family to becoming a man with two, everything was meant to happen just the way it happened. And I am profoundly humbled by that thought." p 273 rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206034517 This quote is important to the person's journey because the only reason Saroo went on his journey was to find his home and his family. He had no religious reason to go on it, he did it for himself. To think he was once a young boy wondering the streets because he lost his family, to being a man that gained a new family plus finding the one he was apart from for so long is incredible.]]> 2017-11-12 20:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206034517 Recommendation rkazaw8807 https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206035938 This book was an incredible story about a man that was lost as a boy and over 2 decades later took the time to find where he was from. Its a wonderful memoir with stories you would not believe could happen to such a young boy. The ending is very heartwarming and it leaves you wanting to research more about Saroo's journey.]]> 2017-11-12 21:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rkazaw8807/b5zuks8prp9w/wish/206035938