I really liked the first quarter of the book when he recollected his experiences as a boy in India. I love memoirs and this was right up my alley. The rest of the book was about his doubts and feelings of depression and his confusion and blah blah blah. It drove me crazy. He grew up in a beautiful, good family in Australia and the story of his adoption as a 5 yr. old was fascinating. But reading about his obsessive search for his family for over 100 pages was awful--he did all of his searching on google maps. So he told about how he spent hours every evening scouring all of India for a familiar landmark. Over. And Over. And Over. Then reading about how he felt about everything for another 50 pages was not fun, so I eventually stopped. :) Also, it wasn't very well written.So: Really cool story, but it could have been told with just as much content and umph in about 60 pages. A well written, moving story of a boy's quest to find out who he is and where he came from. Saroo was lost as a five year old. He was traveling in India on a train with his brother, he got separated, and lived on the streets for a while before he was adopted and placed in an upper middle class family in Australia. He was never bitter about what happen to him and he made the best of what he had and made this a positive story.As an adult he was determined to find his family, and what had happened to them. After becoming a self-made man, and gaining a life for himself he decides to find himself by discovering who his family is.
What do You think about A Long Way Home (2013)?
Fantastic, I was caught up in this story and quickly had to finish it to get to the end!!
—maxstar
