Book description
When two visitors arrive to the boarding house in India where an American boy is coming of age during the British Raj, truths unravel, disrupting his life and challenging the family’s sense of home. A unique historical angle ideal for fans of The Poisonwood Bible and The Inheritance of Loss.…
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Twelve-year-old Gene Hinton is the youngest of four brothers in India of the 1930s. Gene’s American Baptist missionary parents arrived in Bengal twenty years before. The family lives in a large mission house and takes in boarders. Native Arthur has served the Hintons from soon after they arrived in India. Gene and Arthur have formed a special bond.
An imperious British judge from a city near the far-away mountains, “Uncle” Ellis, suddenly arrives at the mission house. Ellis has been a family friend for many years but now provides scant details about why and for how long he must stay.…
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