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A NEW YORK TIMES 2023 SUMMER READ
Meet Tony: the first Indian to set foot on American soil.
Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that travel across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s, there is also Tony. As a child, his home in India becomes…
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I’ve never read a story like this. A young boy withstands excruciating setbacks and vicious bigotry in seventeenth-century Virginia simply because of what he looks like, yet never feels an ounce of self-pity or explodes in righteous anger.
Rather, to sustain himself he holds onto the memory of his mother’s love. What an extraordinary portrayal, gripping and original, one that makes me examine my own life.
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